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Plants and Empire

2009-07-01 Nature
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Release : 2009-07-01
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Book Synopsis Plants and Empire by : Londa Schiebinger

Download or read book Plants and Empire written by Londa Schiebinger. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

Plants and Empire

2004 Herbal abortifacients
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Release : 2004
Genre : Herbal abortifacients
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Book Synopsis Plants and Empire by : Londa L. Schiebinger

Download or read book Plants and Empire written by Londa L. Schiebinger. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Empire of Plants

2002 Nature
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Release : 2002
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Book Synopsis An Empire of Plants by : Toby Musgrave

Download or read book An Empire of Plants written by Toby Musgrave. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, from foodstuffs to industrial materials, plants have dominated trade between countries. Possession of rare spices, sweets, and narcotics could meand enviable wealth and power, so explorers ventured forth, risking death on unknown seas. Here are stories of seven plants--tobacco, sugar, cotton, tea, poppies, quinine, and rubber--and how Europe's hunger for them led to the Age of Empire and turned world history upside down. Not only did these crops ensure the commercial success of America and Europe, but they became the catalyst foasr piracy, smuggling, addiction, and the slave trade: the darker side of the golden profits. A beautiful presentation of a fascinating subject.

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

2016 Botanical specimens
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Release : 2016
Genre : Botanical specimens
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Book Synopsis The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Yota Batsaki

Download or read book The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Yota Batsaki. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century brings together international scholars to examine: the figure of the botanical explorer; links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey, map, and collect specimens in "new" territories; and relationships among botanical knowledge, self-representation, and material culture.

Visible Empire

2012-10-08 Art
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Release : 2012-10-08
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Visible Empire by : Daniela Bleichmar

Download or read book Visible Empire written by Daniela Bleichmar. This book was released on 2012-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.

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