Plants, politics and empire in ancient Rome /
The book investigates the cultural and political dimension of Roman arboriculture and the associated movement of plants from one corner of the empire to the other. It uses the convergent perspectives offered by textual and archaeological sources to sketch a picture of large-scale arboriculture as a...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Roman gardens, representation and politic
- Arboriculture, "botanical imperialism" and plants on the move
- The Augustan "horticultural revolution'
- Grafting glory
- Of peaches and peach trees
- Campania and Cisalpine Gaul : developments in commercial arboriculture
- Plant dispersal and provincial agriculture : the Iberian Peninsula and Gaul
- Viticulture versus arboriculture : a matter of choice.
