Book ID: 88622
Schiebinger, Londa and Claudia Swan (eds.)
Colonial Botany: Science, commerce, and politics in the early modern world. 2005. illustr. VI, 346 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Botany was originally big science and big business, critical toEurope's national and trade ambitions.This collection of essaystraces the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states andeconomies over the course of three centuries.