Planting the Histories of the Americas

“Planting the Histories of the Americas” brings together historically-minded scholars focusing on the history of native plants of the Americas from the pre-Columbian era to the present. At the intersection of natural history, histories of science and medicine, environmental history, plant humanities, food history, ethnohistory, and cultural history, native plants in the Americas offer multiple vantage points to study the Indigenous past, interethnic relations, regimes of knowledge and medical care, comparative frontiers, economic development, and nation-building in the Western Hemisphere. As such, the project promises important synergies and advances in the fields of plant humanities, Latin American studies, American studies, and Native American studies.