Science and Colonial Expansion The Role of the British Royal Botanic Garden The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens by Lucile H Brockway ISBN 0300091435 978-0300091434

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ISBN 10: 0300091435

ISBN 13: 978-0300091434 

Author: Lucile H Brockway

 This widely acclaimed 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 classic 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.

Table of contents:

 1. Introduction —

 2. The British empire —

 3. Seed and plant transfers —

 4. General intellectual background —

 5. Kew Gardens and the scientific elite —

 6. Kew and Cinchona —

 7. Rubber: A new plantation crop and industrial raw material —

 8. Sisal and the Kew bulletin —

9. Kew and empire: Conclusions —

 Appendix: List of the staffs of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and of botanical departments and establishments at home, and in India, and the Colonies, in correspondence with Kew.

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