Science and Colonial Expansion
Subtitle: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Garden
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780300091434
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Colonization & independence; Horticulture; c 1800 to c 1900; Botanical Gardens; Economic Botany; Science; Science/Mathematics; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History; Life Sciences - Botany; World - Colonial Studies; Science / History; Agriculture - General
Description: "This 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 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.