The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

Yota Batsaki is Executive Director of Dumbarton Oaks.Sarah Burke Cahalan is Director of the Marian Library, University of Dayton.Anatole Tchikine is Assistant Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

出版者:Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

作者:Yota Batsaki

页数:406

出版时间:2017-1-9

价格:USD 90.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780884024163

图书标签:科学史环境史NaturalHistoryEarlyModernEurope跟下下个研究计划有关landscape-studiesImperialism生态批评

This book brings together an international body of scholars working on eighteenth-century botany within the context of imperial expansion. The eighteenth century saw widespread exploration, a tremendous increase in the traffic in botanical specimens, taxonomic breakthroughs, and horticultural experimentation. The contributors to this volume compare the impact of new developments and discoveries across several regions, broadening the geographical scope of their inquiries to encompass imperial powers that did not have overseas colonial possessions—such as the Russian, Ottoman, and Qing empires and the Tokugawa shogunate—as well as politically borderline regions such as South Africa, Yemen, and New Zealand.

The essays in this volume examine the botanical ambitions of eighteenth-century empires; the figure of the botanical explorer; the links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey, map, and collect botanical specimens in “new” territories; and the relationships among botanical knowledge, self-representation, and material culture.

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alternative modes of plant illustration (c.7), ginseng (c. 3), natural history in qing empire (c. 15)