Miller, David Philip (Editor)
Reill, Peter Hanns (Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: xix + 370 pp.; illus.; notes; index
Description Contents: Miller, David Philip: Joseph Banks, empire, and “centers of calculation” in late Hanoverian London. Mackay, David: Agents of empire: The Banksian collectors and evaluation of new lands. Frost, Alan: The antipodean exchange: European horticulture and imperial designs. Lawrence, Christopher: Disciplining disease: Scurvy, the navy, and imperial expansion, 1750-1825. Gascoigne, John: The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: A commentary. Koerner, Lisbet: Purposes of Linnaean travel: A preliminary research report. Browne, Janet: Botany in the boudoir and garden: The Banksian context. Bewell, Alan: “On the banks of the South Sea”: Botany and sexual controversy in the late 18th century. Kemp, Martin: “Implanted in our natures”: Humans, plants, and the stories of art. Stafford, Barbara M.: Images of ambiguity: Eighteenth-century microscopy and the neither/nor. Dettelbach, Michael: Global physics and aesthetic empire: Humboldt's physical portrait of the tropics. Reill, Peter Hanns: Seeing and understanding: A commentary. Hoëm, Ingjerd: The scientific endeavor and the natives. Duranti, Alessandro: Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: Three Samoan dinners. Schaffer, Simon: Visions of empire: Afterword.
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Review Dolan, B.P. (1998) Review of "Visions of empire: Voyages, botany, and representations of nature". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 86-87).
Review Golinski, J. (1998) Review of "Visions of empire: Voyages, botany, and representations of nature". American Historical Review (pp. 479-80).
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