An edition of Nature's government
(2000)
Nature's government
science, imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World
by Richard Harry Drayton
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"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.
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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 aspectsPlaces
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Nature's government: science, imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World
2000, Yale University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-326) and index.
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