Plant names of medieval England

unknown at any time or anywhere, but this is a very recent and fragile development. Of special fascination to historians of European imperialism from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is Cohen's statement on page 141 that "a good case can be made that urban European populations of that period may have been among the nutritionally most impoverished, the most disease-ridden, and the shortest-lived populations in human history". Caucasian chauvinists will find it hard to accept Columbus and Captain John Smith as Typhoid Marys.