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The National Sericultural Utopia and Debates on the Acclimatization of Plants in New-born Belgium (1830–1865) (2021)

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This two-folded contribution firstly addresses the little-known history of an agricultural utopia that took over the newly born Belgium. The history of the Belgian sericultural utopia is not anecdotal, however, it was based on the conviction that it was possible to acclimatize exotic species. This conviction has a long history that is depicted in the second part of this research. The permanence in time of this hope is explained by various factors: famous supporters, a lexical fog, experiments considered successful, routines, agricultural crisis, etc. They kept alive the dream of acclimatization carried out by the French Enlightenment, but not only. Yet, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the zealots of the famous André Thouin confronted those—early phytogeographers, or not—who rejected acclimatization more often. It might even be that biological nationalism militated against acclimatization, as showed the International Congress of Horticulture in Brussels (1864), which constitutes the chronological milestone of this research.

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Authors & Contributors
Martin Rickard
Karolina Hutková
Lambruschini, Raffaello
Michael Hayward
Gabbrielli, Veronica
White, P. J.
Concepts
Silk worm culture
Acclimatization
Silk and silk industry
Colonialism
Introduced organisms; exotic species
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
21st century
Places
France
Japan
Australia
Great Britain
Batavia (Netherlands)
England
Institutions
East India Company (English)
Yellowstone National Park
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