The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century write by Yota Batsaki. This book was released on 2016. The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century write by Sarah Burke Cahalan. This book was released on 2013. The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Visible Empire
Visible Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visible Empire write by Daniela Bleichmar. This book was released on 2012-10-08. Visible Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Plants and Empire
Plants and Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plants and Empire write by Londa Schiebinger. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Plants and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions write by Gabriel Paquette. This book was released on 2013-03-14. Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
