Visions of Empire
Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11737019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Golinski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 479-479 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature, David Philip Miller, 1996 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2649777 |
| OpenAlex | W1976547258 |
| Language | EN |
1. Introduction David Philip Miller Part I. The Banksian Empire: 2. Joseph Banks, empire, and 'centers of calculation' in late Hanoverian London David Philip Miller 3. Agents of empire: the Banksian collectors and evaluation of new lands David Mackay 4. The antipodean exchange: European horticulture and imperial designs Alan Frost 5. Disciplining disease: scurvy, the navy, and imperial expansion, 1750-1825 Christopher Lawrence 6. The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: a commentary John Gascoigne Part II. The Uses of Botany: 7. Purposes of Linnaean travel: a preliminary research report Lisbet Koerner 8. Botany in the boudoir and garden: the Banksian context Janet Browne 9. 'On the banks of the South Sea': botany and the sexual controversy in the late eighteenth century Alan Bewell Part III. Representations of Living Nature and their Uses: 10. 'Implanted in our natures': humans, plants, and the stories of art Martin Kemp 11. Images of ambiguity: eighteenth-century microscopy and the neither/nor Barbara M. Stafford 12. Global physics and aesthetic empire: Humboldt's physical portrait of the tropics Michael Dettelbach 13. Seeing and understanding: a commentary Peter Hanns Reill Part IV. The Indigenous Environment: Anthropological Perspectives: 14. The scientific endeavor and the natives Ingjerd Hoem 15. Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: three Samoan dinners Alessandro Duranti 16. Visions of empire: afterword Simon Schaffer
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biology · Context (archaeology · Empire · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Miller · Portrait · Samoan · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy
The making of scientific knowledge in an age of slavery
Passionate Projectors
‘I Was Well Pleased with Our Sport among the Buffalo’
Where is the postcolonial history of medicine
Earthsickness
Plant Publics
Scientific Ethnography and Travel, 1750–1850
Making Space for Geographies of Modernity
Empty Spaces
Darwin, Concepción, and the Geological Sublime
Wonders, Logic, and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century
Pesquisa clínica e experimental no Brasil oitocentista
Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Nature as a Marketplace
La Construction de L'empire de la Géographie L'odyssée des arpenteurs de Sa Très Gracieuse Majesté, la reine Victoria, en Asie centrale
The Botany of Emergence
Materialising reform
A Shared Queerness
Translating Swedish Colonialism
The Global Turn in the History of Science
Vegetal politics
White natures
Crook' pipettes
Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements
Feminist History of Colonial Science
A walk on the wild side
The Evolution of the Plagiarist
Indolence and Illness
Collections Curieuses
Traveling in Place
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Exotic Botany
From natural history to political economy
Splendours and miseries of the science wars
Fleets of Fodder
Making Natural History
Cultural Botany
Making space for science
Useful knowledge, ‘industrial enlightenment’, and the place of India
Un protocole d'enquête pour un voyage autour du monde
Trends and potential expansions in the environmental histories of British Malaya
Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks
Recovering post-colonial tropicalities from a “fervid inflorescence” of metaphor
Life lines
Colonising Botany
Queen Lilies’? The Interpenetration of Scientific, Religious and Gender Discourses in Victorian Representations of Plants
Empires of Forestry
Empires of Forestry
Botanical Gardens and their Role in the Political Economy of Empire
Mental Travelers
Geographia's pen
Sea Tales
Images of the natural (and social) universe in Rétif De La Bretonne’s La découverte australe
Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness
Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward
Nature and Scientific Knowledge in the Spanish Empire Introduction
Late Enlightenment Crises of Facts
Natural History and the Pursuit of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Pliny’s Natural History and the Flavian Templum Pacis
Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts
Writing travels
Sir Joseph Banks's Provincial Turn
Tackling the invisibility of abeyant resistance to mainstream biodiversity conservation
Banks is the villain!’? Sir Joseph Banks and the governance of the Society of Antiquaries
Potatoes and the Hispanic Enlightenment
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