PLANTS AND PEOPLE BIOLOGY 180
Book List for Plants and People
History and Society
Buhner, Stephen H. (2002).The Lost Language of Plants. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, .
Diamond, Jared. (2006). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books.
Diamond, Jared. (1997).Guns,Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company,
Hobhouse, Henry. (2005). Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind. New York: Shoemaker and Hoard, .
Hobhouse, Henry. Seeds of Wealth: Four Plants That Made Men Rich. Washington D.C.: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2003.
Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. New York: Random House trade, 2002.
Foods and Spices
Coe, Sophie D and Michael D. Coe. The True History of Chocolate. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.
Corn, Charles. The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade. New York: Kodansha America, 1999.
Dalby, Andrew. Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002.
Jenkins, Virginia Scott. Bananas: An American History. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Macinnis, Peter. Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2003.
Rain, Patricia. Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.
Tate, Desmond. Tropical Fruit. Singapore: Archipelago Press, 1999.
Willard, Pat. Secrets of Saffron : The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice. Boston: Beacon Press,2001.
Zuckerman, Larry. The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. New York: North Point Press, 1998.
Medicinal Plants and Psychoactives
Balls, Edward. Early Uses of California Plants. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1962
Gately, Iain. Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization. New York: Grove Press,2003.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. New York: Harpers Collins Publishers, 2004. Originally published in 1954.
Metzner, Ralph. Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanacatl: A Sourcebook on the Psilocybin Mushroom. Park Street Press, 2005.
Moore, Michael. Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West. Santa Fe: Red Crane Books, 1993.
Plotkin, Mark. Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets. New York: Penguin Books,2001.
Rocco, Fiammetta. Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure that Changed the World. New York: Perennial - Harpers Collins Publishers, 2003.
Stuart, David. Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Textiles, Dyes, and Wood
Dodge, Bertha. Cotton: The Plant that Would be King. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.
Richards, Lynne. Dyes from American Native Plants: A Practical Guide. Portland: Timber Press, 2005.
Roulac, John W. Hemp Horizons: The Comeback of America's Most Maligned Plant. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1997.
Tucker, Richard. Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth Century World Economy. Durham: Duke University Press,1983.