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Rhubarb : The Wondrous Drug /
An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans' efforts to acquire it and to...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
191 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Roots of Rhubarb
- CHAPTER TWO. The Very True Rhubarb: The Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER THREE. The Russian Rhubarb Trade
- CHAPTER FOUR. The East India Company and European Trade
- CHAPTER FIVE. Collecting and Systematizing
- CHAPTER SIX. Accommodating the Root: The Society of Arts and Other Promotions
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Rhubarb as Medicine: The Eighteenth Century
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Search Ends?
- CHAPTER NINE. The Testing of Rhubarb
- CHAPTER TEN. Tarts and Wine
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index