The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Yota Batsaki / Sarah Burke Cahalan …
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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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1 Introduction
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century | 1
Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine
PART I: BOTANICAL AMBITIONS
2 Botanical Conquistadors
The Promises and Challenges of Imperial Botany in the Hispanic Enlightenment | 35
Daniela Bleichmar
3 The Geography of Ginseng and the Strange Alchemy of Needs | 61
Shigehisa Kuriyama
4 Weeping Willows and Dwarfed Trees
Plants in Chinese Gardens under Western Eyes | 73
Bianca Maria Rinaldi
5 Echoes of Empire
Redefining the Botanical Garden in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany | 93
Anatole Tchikine
PART II: AGENTS OF EMPIRE?
6 The Politics of Secular Pilgrimage
Paul-Émile Botta’s Red Sea Expedition, 1836–39 | 131
Sahar Bazzaz
7 François Le Vaillant
Resistant Botanist? | 143
Ian Glenn
8 Thomas McDonnell’s Opium
Circulating Plants, Patronage, and Power in Britain, China, and New Zealand, 1830s–50s | 165
James Beattie
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PART III: BOTANICAL ITINERARIES
9 On Diplomacy and Botanical Gifts
France, Mysore, and Mauritius in 1788 | 193
Sarah Easterby-Smith
10 From Local to Global
Balsa Rafts and a Bountiful Harvest from Ecuador | 213
Colin McEwan
11 “In Imperio Rutheno”
Johann Amman’s Stirpium rariorum (1739)
and the Foundation of Russia’s Botanical Empire | 235
Rachel Koroloff
PART IV: CULTIVATING IDENTITIES
12 Ornamental Exotica
Transplanting the Aesthetics of Tea Consumption
and the Birth of a British Exotic | 259
Romita Ray
13 Allegories of Alterity
Flora’s Children as the Four Continents | 283
Miranda Mollendorf
14 Ottoman Horticulture after the Tulip Era
Botanizing Consuls, Garden Diplomacy,
and the First Foreign Head Gardener | 307
Deniz Türker
15 Making “Mongolian” Nature
Medicinal Plants and Qing Empire
in the Long Eighteenth Century | 339
Carla Nappi
16 William Bartram’s Drawing of a New Species of Arethusa (1796)
Portrait of a Life | 351
Amy R . W. Meyers
Contributors | 381
Index | 385