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Description for Prickly Pear
Paperback. While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTB; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 484.
While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history. In turn, the trail of the prickly pear in South Africa has been profoundly affected by the plant’s biological characteristics. Plants such as the prickly pear tend to be invisible to those who do not use them, or at least on the peripheries of people’s consciousness. This book explains why they were not ... Read more
While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history. In turn, the trail of the prickly pear in South Africa has been profoundly affected by the plant’s biological characteristics. Plants such as the prickly pear tend to be invisible to those who do not use them, or at least on the peripheries of people’s consciousness. This book explains why they were not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868145300
SKU
V9781868145300
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Ref
99-15
About Tanja Beinart
William Beinart is a professor of race relations and director of graduate studies at the African Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, England. || Luvuyo Wotshela is an academic at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
Reviews for Prickly Pear
I found the book hugely absorbing. It uses the history of one plant to traverse an exceptionally wide historical and social terrain... I think that anyone curious about South African history will find the connections the book makes - across space, time, and, perhaps most of all, between people - fascinating and remarkable. - Jonny Steinberg, author of Midlands and ... Read more