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Monsters under Glass : A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present by Jane Desmarais is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<i>Monsters under Glass</i> explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the vegetable monsters of twentieth-century science fiction and the movies, comics, and video games of the present day. Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was only in the early nineteenth century that a boom in exotic plant collecting and new glasshouse technologies st
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jane Desmarais
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, Limited
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780239750
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Nature, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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