Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, Editors
352 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 54 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3827-3 | $59.95 | £39.00
Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2009-4 | $22.50 | £15.00
"Well illustrated and imaginatively written, this . . . superb collection surveys the leading edge of current approaches but also points towards future research."–Renaissance Studies
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.
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