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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Colonial Governance and Botanical Practices
1. Dominion, Demonstration, and Domination: Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics, and French Plant Collection
2. Walnuts at Hudson Bay, Coral Reefs in Gotland: The Colonialism of Linnaean Botany
3. Mission Gardens: Natural History and Global Expansion, 1720–1820
4. Gathering for the Republic: Botany in Early Republic America
Part II. Translating Indigenous, Creole, and European Botanies: Local Knowledge(s), Global Science
5. Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica
6. Global Economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature
7. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies
8. Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics
9. How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Nature Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt’s Ecological Sensibilities
Part III. Cash Crops: Making and Remaking Nature
10. The Conquest of Spice and the Dutch Colonial Imaginary: Seen and Unseen in the Visual Culture of Trade
11. Of Nutmegs and Botanists: The Colonial Cultivation of Botanical Identity
12. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic
Part IV. Technologies of Accumulation
13. Collecting Naturalia in the Shadow of Early Modern Dutch Trade
14. Accounting for the Natural World: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Field
15. Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftspeople: Making L’Empereur’s Jardin in Early Modern South Asia
16. Measurable Difference: Botany, Climate, and the Gardener’s Thermometer in Eighteenth-Century France
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
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