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This Volume Breaks New Ground By Treating The Development Of The Science Of Botany In Its Colonial Context And Situating The Early Modern Exploration Of The Plant World At The Volatile Nexus Of Science, Commerce, And State Politics.--jacket. Dominion, Demonstration, And Domination: Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics, And French Plant Collection / Chandra Mukerji -- Walnuts At Hudson Bay, Coral Reefs In Gotland: The Colonialism Of Linnaean Botany / Staffan Müller-wille -- Mission Gardens: Natural History And Global Expansion, 1720-1820 / Michael T. Bravo -- Gathering For The Republic: Botany In Early Republic America / Andrew J. Lewis -- Books, Bodies, And Fields: Sixteenth-century Transatlantic Encounters With New World Materia Medica / Daniela Bleichmar -- Global Economies And Local Knowledge In The East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns The Facts Of Nature / Harold J. Cook -- Prospecting For Drugs: European Naturalists In The West Indies / Londa Schiebinger -- Linnaean Botany And Spanish Imperial Biopolitics / Antonio Lafuente And Nuria Valverde -- How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Nature Narratives In Early Modern Spanish America And The (other) Origins Of Humboldt's E

Author

Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan

Publisher

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812293470

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, History