The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century /
The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century /
[editors] Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, Anatole Tchikine.
- vi, 398 pages : illustrations (some color) maps ; 29 cm.
- Dumbarton Oaks symposia and colloquia .
- Dumbarton Oaks symposia and colloquia. .
Based on papers presented at the symposium The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century, held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on October 4-5, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 experimentation. The contributors to this volume compare the impact of new developments and discoveries across several regions, broadening the geographical scope of their inquiries to encompass imperial powers that did not have overseas colonial possessions?such as the Russian, Ottoman, and Qing empires and the Tokugawa shogunate?as well as politically borderline regions such as South Africa, Yemen, and New Zealand. 00The essays in this volume examine the botanical ambitions of eighteenth-century empires; the figure of the botanical explorer; the links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey, map, and collect botanical specimens in "new" territories; and the relationships among botanical knowledge, self-representation, and material culture." --
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101720980 DNLM
Botany--History--18th century--Congresses.
QK15 / .B68 2016
QK15 / .B68 2016
QK 15 / B748 2016
Based on papers presented at the symposium The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century, held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on October 4-5, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 experimentation. The contributors to this volume compare the impact of new developments and discoveries across several regions, broadening the geographical scope of their inquiries to encompass imperial powers that did not have overseas colonial possessions?such as the Russian, Ottoman, and Qing empires and the Tokugawa shogunate?as well as politically borderline regions such as South Africa, Yemen, and New Zealand. 00The essays in this volume examine the botanical ambitions of eighteenth-century empires; the figure of the botanical explorer; the links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey, map, and collect botanical specimens in "new" territories; and the relationships among botanical knowledge, self-representation, and material culture." --
0884024164 9780884024163
40026578650 99970664935
2016001289
GBB722021 bnb
101720980 DNLM
Botany--History--18th century--Congresses.
QK15 / .B68 2016
QK15 / .B68 2016
QK 15 / B748 2016