Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World by Londa Schiebinger
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

Londa Schiebinger

Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

Londa Schiebinger

346 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collecti...

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