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Mediterranean (ed. J. Woodward), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 203–227.
An incisive presentation of the big picture, from prehistory to the present, that does not lose
sight of the details.
Blondel, J. et al. (2010) The Mediterranean Region: Biological Diversity in Space and Time,
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Plant ecology analyzed and described in engaging ways, and correlated to other Mediterranean
biodiversity.
Dallman, P. (1998) Plant Life in the World’s Mediterranean Climates, Berkeley: University of
California Press.
A fine, well-illustrated, accessible introduction to Mediterranean botany which adds
comparativism to its other virtues.
Prance, G., and Nesbit, M. (eds) (2005) The Cultural History of Plants, New York: Routledge.
A convenient reference tool, global in its purview.
Zohary, D., Hopf, M. and Weiss, E. (2012) Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The
Origin and Spread of Domesticated Plants in South-west Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean
Basin, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The fourth edition of the standard synthesis on how cultivated plants got to where they are.