This book brings together an international body of scholars working on eighteenth-century botany within the context of imperial expansion. The eighteenth century saw widespread exploration; a tremendous increase in the traffic in botanical specimens; taxonomic breakthroughs; and horticultural experimentation. The contributors to this volume compare the impact of new developments and discoveries across several regions; broadening the geographical scope of their inquiries to encompass imperial powers that did not have overseas colonial possessions―such as the Russian; Ottoman; and Qing empires and the Tokugawa shogunate―as well as politically borderline regions such as South Africa; Yemen; and New Zealand.The essays in this volume examine the botanical ambitions of eighteenth-century empires; the figure of the botanical explorer; the links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey; map; and collect botanical specimens in “new†territories; and the relationships among botanical knowledge; self-representation; and material culture.
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