xvii, 462 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index.
Contents
No flowers in Africa? -- In the beginning : gardens and paradise, garlands and sacrifice -- The decline of flower culture in Europe -- Flowers without representation in Islam -- The return of the rose in medieval Western Europe -- Icons and iconoclasm in the Renaissance -- The growth of the market -- The secret Language of flowers in France : specialist knowledge or fictive
ethnography? -- The Americanisation of the foreign mind -- The popular culture of flowers in Europe -- Garlands in India : the marigold and the jasmine -- The ̀four gentlemen of flowers' in China -- ̀Let a hundred flowers bloom' : the New Year in South China -- A distant reading.