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Science and Colonial Expansion : The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens by Lucile H. Brockway (1979, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherElsevier Science & Technology Books

ISBN-10012134150X

ISBN-139780121341503

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038250257

Product Key Features

Publication Year1979

TopicLife Sciences / Botany, Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Great Britain

Book TitleScience and Colonial Expansion : the Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens

Number of PagesXv, 215 Pages

LanguageEnglish

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Technology & Engineering, Science, History

AuthorLucile H. Brockway

Book SeriesStudies in Social Discontinuity Ser.

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

LCCN79-051669

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal581.6/0941/09034

SynopsisThis widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth 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. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print. Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants -- cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber, and sisal -- to new continents. 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. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberQK73.G72K48