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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.
Trade Review"Well illustrated and imaginatively written, this . . . superb collection surveys the leading edge of current approaches but also points towards future research." *
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"This collection contributes importantly not only to scholarship on science and empire, but makes clear the diversity of colonial relationships and the myriad and complex ways in which scientific knowledge was made." *
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
—Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan
I. COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND BOTANICAL PRACTICES
1. Dominion, Demonstration, and Domination: Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics, and French Plant Collection
—Chandra Mukerji
2. Walnuts at Hudson Bay, Coral Reefs in Gotland: The Colonialism of Linnaean Botany
—Staffan Müller-Wille
3. Mission Gardens: Natural History and Global Expansion, 1720-1820
—Michael T. Bravo
4. Gathering for the Republic: Botany in Early Republic America
—Andrew J. Lewis
II. TRANSLATING INDIGENOUS, CREOLE, AND EUROPEAN BOTANIES: LOCAL KNOWLEDGE(S), GLOBAL SCIENCE
5. Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica
—Daniela Bleichmar
6. Global Economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature
—Harold J. Cook
7. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies
—Londa Schiebinger
8. Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics
—Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde
9. How Derivative was Humboldt? Microcosmic Nature Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities
—Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
III. CASH CROPS: MAKING AND REMAKING NATURE
10. The Conquest of Spice and the Dutch Colonial Imaginary: Seen and Unseen in the Visual Culture of Trade
—Julie Berger Hochstrasser
11. Of Nutmegs and Botanists: The Colonial Cultivation of Botanical Identity
—E. C. Spary
12. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic
—Judith Carney
IV. TECHNOLOGIES OF ACCUMULATION
13. Collecting Naturalia in the Shadow of Early Modern Dutch Trade"
—Claudia Swan
14. Accounting for the Natural World: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Field
—Anke te Heesen
15. Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftspeople: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia
—Kapil Raj
16. Measurable Difference: Botany, Climate, and the Gardener's Thermometer in
Eighteenth-Century France
—Marie-Noëlle Bourguet
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
