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The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century /

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 experim...

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Other Authors: Batsaki, Yota, 1974- (Editor), Cahalan, Sarah Burke (Editor), Tchikine, Anatole (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2016].
Series:Dumbarton Oaks symposia and colloquia.
Subjects:
Botany > History > 18th century > Congresses.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Plants.
Botany.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction: The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century / Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine
  • 2. Botanical conquistadors: The promises and challenges of imperial botany in the Hispanic enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar
  • 3. The geography of ginseng and the strange alchemy of needs / Shigehisa Kuriyama
  • 4. Weeping willows and dwarfed trees: Plants in Chinese gardens under western eyes / Bianca Maria Rinaldi
  • 5. Echoes of empire: redefining the botanical garden in the eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anatole Tchikine
  • 6. The politics of secular pilgrimage: Paul-Émile Botta's Red Sea Expedition, 1836-39 / Sahar Bazzaz
  • 7. François Le Vaillant: Resistant botanist? / Ian Glenn
  • 8. Thomas McDonnell's opium: Circulating plants, patronage, and power in Britain, China, and New Zealand, 1830s-50s / James Beattie
  • 9. On diplomacy and botanical gifts: France, Mysore, and Mauritius in 1788 / Sarah Easterby-Smith
  • 10. From local to global: Balsa rafts and a bountiful harvest from Ecuador / Colin McEwan
  • "In imperio Rutheno": Johann Amman's Stirpium rariorum (1739) and the foundation of Russia's botanical empire / Rachel Koroloff
  • 12. Ornamental exotic: Transplanting the aesthetics of tea consumption and the birth of a British exotic / Romita Ray
  • 13. Allegories of alterity: Flora's children as the four continents / Miranda Mollendorf
  • 14. Ottoman horticulture after the tulip era: Botanizing consuls, garden diplomacy, and the first foreign head gardener / Deniz Türker
  • Making "Mongolian" nature: Medicinal plants and Qing empire in the long eighteenth century / Carla Nappi
  • William Bartram's drawing of a new species of Arethusa (1796): Portrait of a life / Amy R.W. Meyers.