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Origins of Agriculture |
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Dating the Past: Geologic, Archeologic, Biologic, and Human Culture
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Lecture 1 |
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Early Humans and the Prehistoric Record: Human-Plant Interaction
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Lecture 2 |
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Reading 2-1: Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby
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Reading 2-2: Use Of Plants in the European Palaeolithic: A Review of the Evidence
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Neolithic Revolution and the Discovery of Agriculture
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Lecture 3 |
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Reading 3-1: Views on Agricultural Origins
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Reading 3-2: Evolution, Consequences and Future of Plant and Animal Domestication
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Origins of Crop Plants |
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Geography of Plant Domestication: De Candolle, Darwin, and Vavilov
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Reading 4-1: Apple-Pyrus Malus, Linnaeus
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Reading 4-2: Maize-Zea mays, Linnaeus
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Reading 4-3: The Origins of Fruits and Fruit Growing
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Centers of Origin of Crop Plants
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Lecture 5 |
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Ancient Egyptian Agriculture |
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Ancient Egyptian Agriculture and the Origins of Horticulture
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Lectures 6–8 |
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Reading 6-1: The Civilization of Egypt
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Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
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Ancient Near East Cultures: Sumeria, Babylonia, Judea
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Lecture 9 |
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Reading 9-1: The Disputation Between the Hoe and the Plow
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Reading 9-2: A Sampling of Laws Relating to Agriculture
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Reading 9-3: The First "Farmer's Almanac"
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Biblical and Koranic References to Agricultural Technology
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Lecture 10–11 |
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Reading 10-1: Historical Sketch (Plants of the Bible)
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Reading 10-2: An Ancient Technique for Ripening Sycomore Fruit in East-Agricultural Development in Asia
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Origin of Apple: by Barrie Juniper
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Agricultural Origins and Development in Asia
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Lectures 12–13 |
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Reading 12-1: Asian Crops in North America
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Agricultural Development in Pre-Columbian America |
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Horticulture of Pre-Columbian America
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Lectures 14-16 |
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Reading 14-1: Aztec Milpa Fields
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Reading 14-2: Maya Agriculture
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Reading 14-3: Inca Agriculture
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Images: Of Pre-Columbian America
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Greek and Roman Agriculture |
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Greek Science, Technology, and Agriculture
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Reading 17-1: In Search of Silphion
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Reading 17-2: Silphium
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Images: From the Greek World
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Roman Agricultural History
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Lecture 18 |
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Reading 18-1: Forerunners of Pesticides in Classical Greece and Rome
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Roman Agricultural Writers
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Lecture 19 |
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Reading 19-1: Theophrastus
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Reading 19-2: Cato
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Reading 19-3: Varro
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Reading 19-4: Columella
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Reading 19-5: Pliny
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Medieval Agriculture in Europe |
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Medieval Horticulture
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Reading 20-1: Of the Apple-Tree
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Images: Of Medieval and Renaissance Gardens
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Renaissance Horticulture
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Islamic influences on Western Agriculture
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Lecture 22 |
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Images: Of Islamic Gardens
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Agriculture and Medicine |
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Herbals: The Connection Between Horticulture and Medicine
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Lectures 23–25 |
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Reading 23-1: Dioscorides
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Reading 23-2: The Herbal of John Gerard
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Reading 23-3: Herbalist Symbols
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The History of Spices |
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Spices and History
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Lectures 26–27 |
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Reading 26-1: A Brief History of Spices
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Experimental Science |
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Agriculture, Technology, and the Scientific Revolution
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Rise of Science in the 17th and 18th Century
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Origins of Horticultural Science
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Lecture 30 |
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Agricultural Scientific Revolution |
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Chemical
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Lecture 31 |
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Reading 31-1: A Compendium of Inorganic Substances Used in European Pest Control before 1850
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Reading 31-2: Early Roots of the Organic Movement: A Plant Nutrition Perspective
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Reading 31-3: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Environmental Movement
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Reading 31-4: Rodale Press and Organic Gardening
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Mechanical
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Lecture 32 |
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Images: Development of the Plow
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Images: Irrigation Technology
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Images: Harvesting Technology
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Images: Controlled Environment Horticulture
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Genetic
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Reading 33-1: Gregor Mendel
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Reading 33-2: The Growth of Genetically Modified Foods
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Horticulture, Politics, and World Affairs |
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Sugarcane and Plantation Agriculture
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Lecture 34 |
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Reading 34-1: Sugar & the Slave Trade
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Tea and Colonialism
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Reading 35-1: Tea & the Destruction of China
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Bananas and the Banana Republics
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Lecture 36 |
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Horticulture in Literature and Art |
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Horticulture and Literature: Shakespeare
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Lecture 37 |
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Esthetics of Horticulture
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Lecture 38 |
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Horticultural and Botanical Illustration
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Lecture 39 |
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Images: Botanical and Horticultural Illustrations
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Flowers and Fruits in Painting
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Lecture 40 |
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Reading 40: Caravaggio’s Fruit: A Mirror on Baroque Horticulture
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History of Gardens: Formalism and the Western Tradition
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Images: Gardens and Gardening
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History of Gardens: Naturalism and the Eastern Tradition
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Images: Naturalistic Gardens
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