Research Catalog

Title

The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century / [editors] Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, Anatole Tchikine.

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Meyers, Amy R. W.
• Koroloff, Rachel.
• Rinaldi, Bianca Maria.
• Tchikine, Anatole.
• McEwan, Colin.
• Türker, Deniz, 1983-
• Batsaki, Yota, 1974-
• Cahalan, Sarah Burke
• Tchikine, Anatole
• Dumbarton Oaks

Description

vi, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans; 29 cm.

Summary

"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."--

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks symposia and colloquia

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks symposia and colloquia

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Botany > History > 18th century > Congresses
• Plant collecting > History > 18th century > Congresses
• Botanical specimens > Collection and preservation > Congresses
• Scientific expeditions > History > 18th century > Congresses
• Botany
• Botany > history
• History, 18th Century
• Plants

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Based on papers presented at the symposium The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century, held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on October 4-5, 2013.
• "The long eighteenth century saw widespread exploration and a tremendous increase in the traffic in botanical specimens. The goal of many imperial expeditions was to explore the natural resources of colonies and distant lands in search of potentially profitable plants and products. Plants arrived at major cities on board ships, and were grown in botanical gardens that were often state-funded. The plants were studied and cultivated, especially if they were perceived to have economic or medicinal value. The study of botany was facilitated by herbarium specimens and botanical illustrations, as well as by innovations in taxonomy that simplified the description of plants."--Publisher's website.
• "The symposium will coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Rare Book Room at Dumbarton Oaks, and will feature an exhibit of botanical works from our collections."--doconversations.wordpress.com (viewed December 7, 2016).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century / Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine -- Part I. Botanical ambitions: Botanical Conquistadors : The Promises and Challenges of Imperial Botany in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar ; The Geography of Ginseng and the Strange Alchemy of Needs / Shigehisa Kuriyama ; Weeping Willows and Dwarfed Trees : Plants in Chinese Gardens under Western Eyes / Bianca Maria Rinaldi ; Echoes of Empire : Redefining the Botanical Garden in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany / Anatole Tchikine -- Part II. Agents of Empire?: The Politics of Secular Pilgrimage : Paul-Émile Botta's Red Sea Expedition, 1836-39 / Sahar Bazzaz ; François Le Vaillant : Resistant Botanist? / Ian Glenn ; Thomas McDonnell's Opium : Circulating Plants, Patronage, and Power in Britain, China, and New Zealand, 1830s-50s / James Beattie -- Part III. Botanical Itineraries: On Diplomacy and Botanical Gifts : France, Mysore, and Mauritius in 1788 / Sarah Easterby-Smith ; From Local to Global : Balsa Rafts and a Beautiful Harvest from Ecuador / Colin McEwan ; "In Imperio Rutheno" : Johann Amman's Stirpium rariorum (1739) and the Foundation of Russia's Botanical Empire / Rachel Koroloff -- Part IV. Cultivating Identities: Ornamental Exotica : Transplanting the Aesthetics of Tea Consumption and the Birth of a British Exotic / Romita Ray ; Allegories of Alterity : Flora's Children as the Four Continents / Miranda Mollendorf ; Ottoman Horticulture after the Tulip Era : Botanizing Consuls, Garden Diplomacy, and the First Foreign Gardener / Deniz Türker ; Making "Mongolian" Nature : Medicinal Plants and Qing Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century / Carla Nappi ; William Bartram's Drawing of a New Species of Arethusa (1796) : Portrait of a Life / Amy R. W. Meyers.

ISBN

• 9780884024163
• 0884024164

LCCN

^^2016001289

OCLC

• 937368094
• SCSB-12641733

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library