Title Colonial botany : science, commerce, and politics in the early modern world / edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan

Edition First paperback edition Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages) Contents 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 ecological sensibilities / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- The conquest of spice and the Dutch colonial imagery: seen and unseen in the visual culture of trade / Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- Of nutmegs and botanists: the colonial cultivation of botanical identity / E.C. Spary -- Out of Africa: colonial rice history in the black Atlantic / Judith Carney -- Collecting naturalia in the shadow of early modern Dutch trade / Claudia Swan -- Accounting for the natural world: double-entry bookkeeping in the field / Anke te Heesen -- Surgeons, fakirs, merchants, and craftspeople: making l'empereur's jardin in early modern south Asia / Kapil Raj -- Measurable difference: botany, climate, and the gardener's thermometer in eighteenth-century France / Marie-Noëlle Bourguet Summary 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 plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of classification. Charting a new map of botany along colonial coordinates, reaching from Europe to the New World, India, Asia, and other points on the globe, Colonial Botany explores how the study, naming, cultivation, and marketing of rare and beautiful plants resulted from and shaped European voyages, conquests, global trade, and scientific exploration. From the earliest voyages of discovery, naturalists sought profitable plants for king and country, personal and corporate gain. Costly spices and valuable medicinal plants such as nutmeg, tobacco, sugar, Peruvian bark, peppers, cloves, cinnamon, and tea ranked prominently among the motivations for European voyages of discovery. At the same time, colonial profits depended largely on natural historical exploration and the precise identification and effective cultivation of profitable plants. 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. Written by scholars as international as their subjects, Colonial Botany uncovers an emerging cultural history of plants and botanical practices in Europe and its possessions publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-330) and index Notes online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 8, 2021) SUBJECT Europa gnd Subject Botany, Economic -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History Botany, Economic -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History Plant introduction -- Europe -- History Botany -- economics Botany -- history Colonialism SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany. Botany, Economic Botany, Economic -- Political aspects Plant introduction Botanik Einbürgerung Biologie Kolonialismus Kolonie Nutzpflanzen Pflanzen Etnobotanie. Planten. Introductie. Economische aspecten. Politieke aspecten. Koloniën. SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Europe Subject Europe Europa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Schiebinger, Londa L., editor. Swan, Claudia, editor. ISBN 9780812293470 0812293479 9780812238273 0812238273

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