Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature / edited by David Philip Miller a...
Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature / edited by David Philip Miller a...
Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature / edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Date
1996.
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508.09033/1
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English
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xix, 370 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction / David Philip Miller -- 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...
12. Global physics and aesthetic empire: Humboldt's physical portrait of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- 13. Seeing and understanding: a commentary / Peter Hanns Reill -- 14. The scientific endeavor and the natives / Ingjerd Hoem -- 15. Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: three Samoan din...
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Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1996.
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Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature / edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill.
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"Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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508.09033/1
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ISBN
0521483034
9780521483032 (hardback)
0521483034 (hardback)
9780521483032
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508.09033
50809033
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991004326549702626
