{"product_id":"visions-of-empire-voyages-botany-and-representations-of-nature-paperback-9780521172615","title":"Visions of Empire; Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature (Paperback) 9780521172615","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVisions of Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVoyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Philip Miller (Edited by), Peter Hanns Reill (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521172615, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 21 July 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e394 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 2.1 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1996 collection examines the discovery of plants and peoples of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by European scientists and travellers. The contributors conceptualise the process of discovery, which involved active cultural solutions to problems of representation, rather than mere collection and passive depiction. These solutions both reflected and created visions of empire. Studies of the voyages of Banks and Cook investigate their mobilisation of resources. Other essays examine the economic and theological roots of Linnaeus's natural history, and the importance of the sexual system of classification in ideas of human nature and social order. Visions of Empire also tackles the cultural roots of botanical representations and the interpretations of encounters with other peoples. Its interdisciplinary approach maps out a more sophisticated understanding of representations of nature and society.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction David Philip Miller\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Banksian Empire: 2. Joseph Banks, empire, and 'centers of calculation' in late Hanoverian London David Philip Miller\u003cbr\u003e 3. Agents of empire: the Banksian collectors and evaluation of new lands David Mackay\u003cbr\u003e 4. The antipodean exchange: European horticulture and imperial designs Alan Frost\u003cbr\u003e 5. Disciplining disease: scurvy, the navy, and imperial expansion, 1750–1825 Christopher Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e 6. The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: a commentary John Gascoigne\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Uses of Botany: 7. Purposes of Linnaean travel: a preliminary research report Lisbet Koerner\u003cbr\u003e 8. Botany in the boudoir and garden: the Banksian context Janet Browne\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'On the banks of the South Sea': botany and the sexual controversy in the late eighteenth century Alan Bewell\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Representations of Living Nature and their Uses: 10. 'Implanted in our natures': humans, plants, and the stories of art Martin Kemp\u003cbr\u003e 11. Images of ambiguity: eighteenth-century microscopy and the neither\/nor Barbara M. Stafford\u003cbr\u003e 12. Global physics and aesthetic empire: Humboldt's physical portrait of the tropics Michael Dettelbach\u003cbr\u003e 13. Seeing and understanding: a commentary Peter Hanns Reill\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Indigenous Environment: Anthropological Perspectives: 14. The scientific endeavor and the natives Ingjerd Hoëm\u003cbr\u003e 15. Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: three Samoan dinners Alessandro Duranti\u003cbr\u003e 16. Visions of empire: afterword Simon Schaffer.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909179597080,"sku":"9780521172615","price":40.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521172615i_e1449e5d-8e21-4585-94aa-f35e582f4733.jpg?v=1691372939","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/visions-of-empire-voyages-botany-and-representations-of-nature-paperback-9780521172615","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}