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Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History

Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History

Paperback

Armed ForcesBotany & HorticultureCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1476691312
ISBN13: 9781476691312
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Nov 15 2022
Pages: 201
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.93 Depth: 9.92
Language: English

Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War. Agriculture provided products essential to the war effort, from dietary rations to antimalarial drugs to raw materials for military uniforms and engineering. Drawing on a range of primary sources, this history examines the botany and ethnobotany of America's defining conflict. The author describes the diverse roles of cash crops, herbal medicine, subsistence agriculture and the diet and cookery of enslaved people.

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