Science and Colonial Expansion : The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens

Name: Science and Colonial Expansion : The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens
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ISBN: 9780121341503

ISBN-10: 012134150X

ISBN-13: 9780121341503

Edition: 1979

Authors: Lucile H. Brockway

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

The late Lucile H. Brockway received her doctoral degree in anthropology from the City University of New York.

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The British Empire	p. 13
The World Capitalist System	p. 14
East-West Divergence	p. 15
European Expansion: Technology and Trade	p. 17
The Colonization of the Indies	p. 20
The British and China: Opium and Tea	p. 26
The Tea Transfer	p. 27
India in the Plantation Economy	p. 28
The Empire in the New World: Agriculture and Labor	p. 30
Seed and Plant Transfers	p. 35
New Food Staples	p. 37
Discussion	p. 45
Plantation Crops	p. 46
Beverages: Coffee, Tea, Cocoa	p. 51
Nonfood Plants	p. 54
Discussion	p. 56
General Intellectual Background	p. 61
Learned Societies	p. 63
The Intellectual Context	p. 69
Roster of Learned Societies	p. 71
Botany and Botanic Gardens	p. 72
Kew Gardens and the Scientific Elite	p. 77
Kew Gardens--The Formative Stage	p. 78
Display	p. 81
Research and Publication	p. 81
Economic Botany: Plant Collection and Distribution	p. 83
Wardian Cases	p. 86
The Scientific Elite	p. 87
The Kew Circle: Personal Networks	p. 88
The Second Generation	p. 92
The Imperial Stage	p. 100
Kew and Cinchona	p. 103
The Effects of the Sepoy Revolt	p. 104
Malaria	p. 106
Cinchona Bark	p. 108
Indigenous Use?	p. 109
Reasons and Rationales	p. 111
The Cinchona Transfer	p. 112
From Wild to Cultivated: The Development Process	p. 117
The Nilgiris	p. 121
Bengal	p. 122
Ceylon	p. 122
South American Market	p. 124
Quinine: An Arm of Empire	p. 126
Quinine and the Penetration of Africa	p. 127
Local Effects of Cinchona Plantations	p. 133
Postscript	p. 139
Rubber--A New Plantation Crop and Industrial Raw Material	p. 141
The Cinchona Model	p. 143
The Botany of Rubber	p. 144
Wild Rubber	p. 144
Amazonian Rubber on the World Market	p. 147
The Rubber Trade and the Indian Population	p. 148
Final Boom and Bust	p. 151
Wild Rubber Assessed	p. 156
From Wild to Cultivated	p. 156
The Experimental Years	p. 158
Labor	p. 160
Rubber and the Empire	p. 164
Sisal and the Kew Bulletin	p. 167
The Commercial Agaves	p. 168
A Yucatan Hacienda	p. 170
Plant Removals	p. 173
Bahama Hemp	p. 175
Sisal in Brazil	p. 181
Summary	p. 182
Kew and Empire: Conclusions	p. 185
Some Architectural Symbols	p. 185
List of the Staffs of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and of Botanical Departments and Establishments at Home, and in India, and the Colonies, in Correspondence with Kew	p. 197
References	p. 203
Subject Index	p. 213
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