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The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of Roman arboriculture and the movement of plants from one corner of the empire to the other. Incorporates historical, textual and archaeobotanical data, making this material more widely accessible, and highlights the extent to which arboriculture was a cultural and political phenomenon.

Table of Contents
1. Roman gardens, representation and politics; 2. Aboriculture, 'Botanical Imperialism' and plants on the move; 3. The Augustan 'Horticultural Revolution'; 4. Grafting glory; 5. Of peaches and peach trees; 6. Campania and Cisalpine Gaul: Developments in commercial arboriculture; 7. Plant dispersal and provincial agriculture: The Iberian peninsula and Gaul; 8. Viticulture versus arboriculture: A matter of choice.

Plants Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 10/13/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009100663, 978-1009100663
      ISBN10: 1009100661
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of Roman arboriculture and the movement of plants from one corner of the empire to the other. Incorporates historical, textual and archaeobotanical data, making this material more widely accessible, and highlights the extent to which arboriculture was a cultural and political phenomenon.

      Table of Contents
      1. Roman gardens, representation and politics; 2. Aboriculture, 'Botanical Imperialism' and plants on the move; 3. The Augustan 'Horticultural Revolution'; 4. Grafting glory; 5. Of peaches and peach trees; 6. Campania and Cisalpine Gaul: Developments in commercial arboriculture; 7. Plant dispersal and provincial agriculture: The Iberian peninsula and Gaul; 8. Viticulture versus arboriculture: A matter of choice.

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