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Plants and Human Conflict (Hardcover)
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Plants and Human Conflict (Hardcover)
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Perhaps the least appreciated dramatis personae in human history
are plants. Humans, like all other animals, cannot produce their
own food as plants do through photosynthesis, and must therefore
acquire organic material for survival and growth by eating plants
or by eating other animals that eat plants. Humans depend on plants
not only as a food source, but also as building and clothing
materials and as sources of medicines, psychoactive substances,
spices, pigments, and more. With plants being such valuable
resources, it is therefore not surprising that plants have been
involved in practically all violent conflicts among different human
societies. Ironically, plants have also been the source of
materials to construct weapons or weapon parts. Wars have always
constituted a large part of human history, and the overall theme of
this book is that to understand the history of violent human
conflict, we need to understand what specific materials plants make
that people find so useful and worth fighting over, and what roles
such plant products have played in specific conflicts. To do so,
Plants and Human Conflict begins with a chapter explaining the
basic biological facts of the interdependence between plants and
humans, and the subsequent seven chapters describe the physical and
chemical properties of specific plant products demonstrating how
the human need for these products has led to wars as well as
contributed to the prosecution of wars. These chapters recount some
well-known (and some lesser known) historical events in which
plants have played a central role. This book uniquely combines the
modern scientific knowledge of plants with the human history of
war, introducing readers to a new paradigm that will make them
reconsider their understanding of human history, as well as to
bring about a greater appreciation of plant biology.
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