Colonial Botany

Colonial Botany
Author: Londa Schiebinger
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2007-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812220099


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A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.


Colonial Botany
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Londa Schiebinger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among p
Plants and Empire
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Londa Schiebinger
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century,
Science and Colonial Expansion
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Lucile H. Brockway
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth
Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Claudia Swan
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Yota Batsaki
Categories: Botanical specimens
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

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The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century brings together international scholars to examine: the figure of the botanical explorer; links between imper