ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Francesca Bray Author & Editor

Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Moving Crops and the Scales of History cover

Moving Crops and the Scales of History

4 authors - Hardback

£35.00

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China cover

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China

Francesca Bray - Paperback

£49.99

Rice

4 contributors - Paperback

£38.00

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China cover

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China

Francesca Bray - Hardback

£145.00

Rice

4 contributors - Hardback

£109.00

The Rice Economies cover

The Rice Economies

Francesca Bray - Paperback

£26.00

Technology and Gender cover

Technology and Gender

Francesca Bray - Paperback

£31.00

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture cover

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture

2 authors - Hardback

£284.00