Reference Works
- Vanderbilt's Library CatalogYou can find reference books in print or e-books on your plant using the subject keywords suggested below. For books, narrow your search from "everything" to "Library catalog." You can also narrow your search to articles. Book results can be limited by Library on the sidebar. Select "Offsite storage" for Special Collections materials.
- Google ScholarAnother resource to search broadly for scholarly books and articles. If you are a Vanderbilt user search results will often include a "Find it at VU" link to the resource.
Keywords and Subject Terms to Use in Searching Vanderbilt's Catalog
Subject begins with: Medical Subject begins with:
Medicinal plants Mexico Plants, Medicinal
Herbs Therapeutic use
Herbs Early works to 1800
Traditional medicine Latin America
Ethnobotany Mexico
Materia medica Early works to 1800
Materia medica, Vegetable Latin America
Medicinal plants Latin America
Natural history Latin America
Plants Brazil
Plants Amazon
Scientific expeditions Colonies Spain
Books
Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America by Call Number: ebook and Central RS174 .D85 2009ISBN: 9781420043174Publication Date: 2008A comprehensive dictionary of Latin American plants and their medicinal properties.
Flora of the Codex Cruz-Badianus by ISBN: 3030469581Publication Date: 20201552 Naha (Aztec) manuscript hat described indigenous medicinal uses of native plants..
Visual Voyages by Call Number: Central Arts NX430 .L29 B54 2017ISBN: 9780300224023Publication Date: 2017-10-10Visual exploration of the depiction of the natural world from the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. Tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science and trade..
Visible Empire by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0226058557Publication Date: 2012-10-01Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions in the Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas and the Caribbean.
Plants and Empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic World by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0674043278Publication Date: 2009
