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Book Reviews archive results 1-4 of 4 in Agriculture & Environment and Indigenous knowledge

Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Stuart McCook reviews a book describing the incorporation of traditional medicines from the Caribbean into European medicines in the 18th century.

BOOK REVIEW | 14 January 2005 | EN

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

BOOK REVIEW | 25 July 2003 | EN

Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analyzing and Using Agricultural Diversity

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

Securing the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

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