ISBN0884024164 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780884024163 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
寄与者[editors] Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, Anatole Tchikine.
一般注記I. Introduction: The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century / Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine -- 2. Botanical conquistadors: The promises and challenges of imperial botany in the Hispanic enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar -- 3. The geography of ginseng and the strange alchemy of needs / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- 4. Weeping willows and dwarfed trees: Plants in Chinese gardens under western eyes / Bianca Maria Rinaldi -- 5. Echoes of empire: redefining the botanical garden in the eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anatole Tchikine -- 6. The politics of secular pilgrimage: Paul-Émile Botta's Red Sea Expedition, 1836-39 / Sahar Bazzaz -- 7. François Le Vaillant: Resistant botanist? / Ian Glenn -- 8. Thomas McDonnell's opium: Circulating plants, patronage, and power in Britain, China, and New Zealand, 1830s-50s / James Beattie -- 9. On diplomacy and botanical gifts: France, Mysore, and Mauritius in 1788 / Sarah Easterby-Smith -- 10. From local to global: Balsa rafts and a bountiful harvest from Ecuador / Colin McEwan -- "In imperio Rutheno": Johann Amman's Stirpium rariorum (1739) and the foundation of Russia's botanical empire / Rachel Koroloff -- 12. Ornamental exotica: Transplanting the aesthetics of tea consumption and the birth of a British exotic / Romita Ray -- 13. Allegories of alterity: Flora's children as the four continents / Miranda Mollendorf -- 14. Ottoman horticulture after the tulip era: Botanizing consuls, garden diplomacy, and the first foreign head gardener / Deniz Türker -- Making "Mongolian" nature: Medicinal plants and Qing empire in the long eighteenth century / Carla Nappi -- William Bartram's drawing of a new species of Arethusa (1796): Portrait of a life / Amy R.W. Meyers.
Based on papers presented at the symposium The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century, held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on October 4-5, 2013.