About this title: 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, ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Date Published: 2007-07-13
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13:9780812220094ISBN:0812220099
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