Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics |
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| Editor:
| Wylie, Lesley |
| Series title: | American Tropics Towards a Literary Geography LUP Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-83764-473-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2024 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the American Tropics, from the U.S. South to Argentina, showing how vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries across and beyond the extended tropical region.
This volume establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the American Tropics, from the U.S. South to Argentina, showing how vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries across and beyond the extended tropical region.