The Botany Of Empire In The Long Eighteenth Century
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The Botany Of Empire In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Sarah Burke Cahalan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Botany Of Empire In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Sarah Burke Cahalan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Botanical illustration categories.
The Botany Of Empire In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Yota Batsaki
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Release Date : 2016
The Botany Of Empire In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Yota Batsaki and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Botanical specimens categories.
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.
Botanophilia In Eighteenth Century France
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Author : R.L. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Botanophilia In Eighteenth Century France written by R.L. Williams and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with History categories.
The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism. This encompassed the development of a reliable system for plant classification and the invention of a nomenclature that could be universally applied and understood. The key that enabled Linnaeus to devise his classification system was the discovery of the sexuality of plants. The book, which is intended for the educated general reader, proceeds to illustrate how many aspects of French life were permeated by this revolution in botany between about 1760 to 1815, a botanophilia sometimes inflated into botanomania. The reader should emerge with a clearer understanding of what the Enlightenment actually was in contrast to some popular second-hand ideas today.
Visions Of Empire
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Author : David Philip Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Visions Of Empire written by David Philip Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
These scholarly but accessible essays examine the discovery of Pacific lands by eighteenth-century European travelers. The investigation focuses on how resources were mobilized and how plants and peoples were depicted and understood. The findings of botany, natural history and anthropology are revealed as profoundly shaped by the economic, political, imperial and cultural frameworks within which they were pursued. Visions of Empire maps out by its interdisciplinary approach a more sophisticated understanding of representations of nature and society.
A Cultural History Of Plants In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
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Author : Jennifer Milam
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-14
A Cultural History Of Plants In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries written by Jennifer Milam and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with History categories.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800,a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. Foreign and exotic plants become objects of cultivation, collection, and display, whilst the applications of plants became central not only to naturalists, landowners, and gardeners but also to philosophers, artists, merchants, scientists, and rulers. As the Enlightenment took hold, the natural world became something to be grasped through reasoned understanding. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. Jennifer Milam is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Art History, University of Newcastle, Australia. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.
Plants And Empire
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Author : Londa Schiebinger
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Plants And Empire written by Londa Schiebinger and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Nature categories.
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.
A Botanical World
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Author : Eliza V. Jarvinen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A Botanical World written by Eliza V. Jarvinen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Botanists categories.
Small Things In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Chloe Wigston Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-29
Small Things In The Eighteenth Century written by Chloe Wigston Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Playful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Imperial Portugal In The Age Of Atlantic Revolutions
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Author : Gabriel Paquette
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Imperial Portugal In The Age Of Atlantic Revolutions written by Gabriel Paquette and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with History categories.
As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.
Visible Empire
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Author : Daniela Bleichmar
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-10-08
Visible Empire written by Daniela Bleichmar and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with Science categories.
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.