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Lecture 1 - Dating the Past: Geologic, Archeologic, Biologic, and Human Culture |
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Lecture 2 - Early Humans and the Prehistoric Record: Human-Plant Interaction |
| READING 2-1 - Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby | ||
| READING 2-2 - Use Of Plants in the European Palaeolithic: A Review of the Evidence | ||
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Lecture 3 - Neolithic Revolution and the Discovery of Agriculture |
| READING 3-1 - Views on Agricultural Origins | ||
| READING 3-2 - Evolution, Consequences and Future of Plant and Animal Domestication | ||
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Lecture 4 - Geography of Plant Domestication: De Candolle, Darwin, and Vavilov |
| READING 4-1 - Apple-Pyrus Malus, Linnaeus | ||
| READING 4-2 - Maize-Zea mays, Linnaeus | ||
| READING 4-3 - The Origins of Fruits and Fruit Growing | ||
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Lecture 5 - Centers of Origin of Crop Plants |
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Lectures 6-8 - Ancient Egyptian Agriculture and the Origins of Horticulture |
| READING 6-1 - The Civilization of Egypt | ||
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Lecture 9 - Ancient Near East Cultures: Sumeria, Babylonia, Judea |
| READING 9-1 - The Disputation Between the Hoe and the Plow | ||
| READING 9-2 - A Sampling of Laws Relating to Agriculture | ||
| READING 9-3 - The First "Farmer's Almanac" | ||
| IMAGES - From the Ancient Near East | ||
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Lecture 10-11 - Biblical and Koranic References to Agricultural Technology |
| READING 10-1 - Historical Sketch (Plants of the Bible) | ||
| READING 10-2 - An Ancient Technique for Ripening Sycomore Fruit in East-Mediterranean Countries | ||
| Video | Origin of Apple: Guest Lecture by Barrie Juniper | |
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Lectures 12-13 - Agricultural Origins and Development in Asia |
| READING 12-1 - Asian Crops in North America | ||
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Lectures 14-16 - Horticulture of Pre-Columbian America |
| READING 14-1 - Aztec Milpa Fields | ||
| READING 14-2 - Maya Agriculture | ||
| READING 14-3 - Inca Agriculture | ||
| IMAGES - Of Precolumbian America | ||
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Lecture 17 - Greek Science, Technology, and Agriculture |
| READING 17-1 - In Search of Silphion | ||
| READING 17-2 - Silphium | ||
| IMAGES - From the Greek World | ||
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Lecture 18 - Roman Agricultural History |
| READING 18-1 - Forerunners of Pesticides in Classical Greece and Rome | ||
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Lecture 19 - Greek, Carthaginian, and Roman Agricultural Writers |
| READING 19-1 - Theophrastus | ||
| READING 19-2 - Cato | ||
| READING 19-3 - Varro | ||
| READING 19-4 - Columella | ||
| READING 19-5 - Pliny | ||
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Lecture 20 - Medieval and Renaissance Agriculture in Europe |
| READING 20-1 - Of the Apple-Tree | ||
| IMAGES - Of Medieval and Renaissance Gardens | ||
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Lecture 21 - Medieval and Renaissance Agriculture in Europe |
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Lecture 22 - Islamic influences on Western Agriculture |
| IMAGES - Of Islamic Gardens | ||
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Lectures 23-25 - Herbals: The Connection Between Horticulture and Medicine |
| READING 23-1 - Dioscorides | ||
| READING 23-2 - The Herbal of John Gerard | ||
| Herbal Notes - Herbal Notes | ||
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Lectures 26-27 - Spices and History |
| READING 26-1 - A Brief History of Spices | ||
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Lecture 28 - Agriculture, Technology, and the Scientific Revolution |
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Lecture 29 - Rise of Science in the 17th and 18th Century |
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Lecture 30 - Origins of Horticultural Science |
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Lecture 31 - Agricultural Scientific Revolution: Chemical |
| READING 31-1 - A Compendium of Inorganic Substances Used in European Pest Control before 1850 | ||
| READING 31-2 - Early Roots of the Organic Movement: A Plant Nutrition Perspective | ||
| READING 31-3 - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Environmental Movement | ||
| READING 31-4 - Rodale Press and Organic Gardening | ||
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Lecture 32 - Agricultural Scientific Revolution: Mechanical |
| IMAGES - Development of the Plow | ||
| IMAGES - Irrigation Technology | ||
| IMAGES - Harvesting Technology | ||
| IMAGES - Controlled Environment Horticulture | ||
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Lecture 33 - Agricultural Scientific Revolution: Genetic |
| READING 33-1 - Gregor Mendel | ||
| READING 33-2 - The Growth of Genetically Modified | ||
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Lecture 34 - Horticulture, Politics, and World Affairs: Sugarcane and Plantation Agriculture |
| READING 34-1 - Sugar & the Slave Trade | ||
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Lecture 35 - Horticulture, Politics, and World Affairs: Tea and Colonialism |
| READING 35-1 - Tea & the Destruction of China | ||
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Lecture 36 - Horticulture, Politics, and World Affairs: Bananas and the Banana Republics |
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Lecture 37 - Horticulture and Literature: Shakespeare |
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Lecture 38 - Esthetics of Horticulture |
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Lecture 39 - Horticultural and Botanical Illustration |
| IMAGES - Botanical and Horticultural Illustrations | ||
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Lecture 40 - Flowers and Fruits In Painting |
| IMAGES - Plants, Flowers and Fruits in Art | ||
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Lecture 41 - History of Gardens: Formalism and the Western Tradition |
| IMAGES - Gardens and Gardening | ||
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Lecture 42 - History of Gardens: Naturalism and the Eastern Tradition |
| IMAGES - Naturalistic Gardens | ||
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