Explores the history of the colour green (from a mostly western Europeanl perspective, which the author admits). No guaranteed explainations, just hypothesis of why it came to have it's superstition and status. The lack of high quality dye seems to be a key component that keeps cropping up in relation to greens negative image- fickle, betrayal, changing, and low class.

Personally I would have liked a more indepth look at the science of dyes/paints, but this is a history book. So weird that people were licensed dyers for only a single colour... Bureaucracy run amok