Title: Nature's government
Description: "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.
Subjects: Botany, Economic Botany, History, Imperialism, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Political aspects of Economic botany, Science and civilization, Historyroyal botanic gardens, kew, Imperialism--history, Botany, economic--political aspects, Botany, economic--political aspects--great britain, Botany--history, Botany--great britain--history, Botany--economics, Botany--politics, Da470 .d73 2000, 325/.341/009033, Political aspects
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century