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Science and Colonial Expansion by Lucile H. Brockway
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The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens
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This work analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the 19th century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants to new continents: cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.
Release date Australia
September 10th, 2002
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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8 b-w illus.
Pages
232
Dimensions
152x228x12
ISBN-13
9780300091434
Product ID
3787862

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