Tropical Turn - Agricultural Innovation in Ancient Middle East Mediterranean

“Having grappled with a complex, sometimes contradictory, and often obscure corpus of data spanning multiple fields of scholarship, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date summary of the dispersal of ancient crops across South Asia and the eastern Mediterranean.”—Robert N. Spengler III, author of Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
 
“Accessible, rigorous, and interdisciplinary, Muthukumaran’s Tropical Turn offers an absorbing plant-based historical journey from tropical Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. This lucid, thought-provoking account of agricultural plant migrations—which variously affected labor regimes, landscapes, and cultural traditions—demonstrates how fascinating and relevant to understanding our globalized world crop histories can be.”—Daniel Fuks, Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

 

About the author

Sureshkumar Muthukumaran is a historian of the ancient world. He is a Lecturer in History at the National University of Singapore and has previously taught at University College London and Yale-NUS College.

Product details

• Authors: Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2023
• EAN: 9780520390843
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39084-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, HISTORY / World, SCIENCE / Paleontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, South East Asia, General & world history, Food & society, Asian History, General and world history, Botany & plant sciences, Palaeontology, Cultural studies: food and society, Botany and plant sciences