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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of classification. Charting a new map of botany along colonial coordinates, reaching from Europe to the New World, India, Asia, and other points on the globe, Colonial Botany explores how the study, naming, cultivation, and marketing of rare and beautiful plants resulted from and shaped European voyages, conquests, global trade, and scientific exploration.From the earliest voyages of discovery, naturalists sought profitable plants for king and country, personal and corporate gain. Costly spices and valuable medicinal plants such as nutmeg, tobacco, sugar, Peruvian bark, peppers, cloves, cinnamon, and tea ranked prominently among the motivations for European voyages of discovery. At the same time, colonial profits depended largely on natural historical exploration and the precise identification and effective cultivation of profitable plants. This volume breaks new ground by treating the development of the science of botany in its colonial context and situating the early modern exploration of the plant world at the volatile nexus of science, commerce, and state politics.Written by scholars as international as their subjects, Colonial Botany uncovers an emerging cultural history of plants and botanical practices in Europe and its possessions.
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9780812238273 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 28, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions.
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9780812220094 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 13, 2007, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland is the first sustained study to offer an account of the rise of scientific naturalism in Dutch art and the simultaneous interest in fantastic imagery, representations of witches in particular...read more
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9780521826747 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 18, 2005, cover price $107.99 | About this edition: Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland is the first sustained study to offer an account of the rise of scientific naturalism in Dutch art and the simultaneous interest in fantastic imagery, representations of witches in particular.
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9780964808348 | Eos Music Inc, March 1, 1999, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Commissioned from an unknown artist by the Dutch pharmacist Theodorus Clutius as research material for doctors and herbalists - and later used by artists - the botanical watercolours illustrated in this book epitomize the Renaissance interest in and exploration of the natural world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810940956 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Commissioned from an unknown artist by the Dutch pharmacist Theodorus Clutius as research material for doctors and herbalists - and later used by artists - the botanical watercolours illustrated in this book epitomize the Renaissance interest in and exploration of the natural world.
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9780964808324 | Eos Music Inc, August 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by
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9780964808300 | Eos Music Inc, August 1, 1998, cover price $30.00
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9780964808317 | Eos Music Inc, July 1, 1997, cover price $28.00
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