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Author Drayton, Richard Harry

Title Nature's government : science, imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World / Richard Drayton
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000

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Description xxi, 346 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Contents pr. 1. Adam out of Eden -- The world in a garden -- Plants and power -- The useful garden: agriculture and the science of government -- pt. 2. Nature and empire -- 'Improving' the British Empire: Sir Joseph Banks and Kew, 1783-1820 -- From Royal to public: the 'reform' of Kew, 1820-41 -- The professionals and the Empire: the Hookers at Kew, 1841-73 -- The government of nature: imperial science and a scientific empire, 1873-1903
Summary "Nature's Government is an attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and made conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and beneficial."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-326) and index
Subject Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, England) -- History
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- History
SUBJECT Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. fast
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- History. nli
Subject Botany -- economics
Botany -- politics
Imperialism -- History
Botany -- Great Britain -- History
History
History
Botany, Economic -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
history (discipline)
History.
Botany.
Botany, Economic -- Political aspects.
Imperialism.
Botanische tuinen.
Imperialisme.
Kew Gardens.
Vooruitgang.
Botany, Economic -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Imperialism -- History.
Botany -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Subject Great Britain.
4.240.
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 99059158
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