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: 9780300091434

ISBN-10: 0300091435

ISBN-13: 9780300091434

Edition: 2002

Authors: Lucile H. Brockway

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An analysis of the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by economic botany during the 19th century. It examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the Empire's prosperity.

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.87" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

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



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



The British Empire


The World Capitalist System


East-West Divergence


European Expansion: Technology and Trade


The Colonization of the Indies


The British and China: Opium and Tea


The Tea Transfer


India in the Plantation Economy


The Empire in the New World: Agriculture and Labor



Seed and Plant Transfers


New Food Staples


Discussion


Plantation Crops


Beverages: Coffee, Tea, Cocoa


Nonfood Plants


Discussion



General Intellectual Background


Learned Societies


The Intellectual Context


Roster of Learned Societies


Botany and Botanic Gardens



Kew Gardens and the Scientific Elite


Kew Gardens--The Formative Stage


Display


Research and Publication


Economic Botany: Plant Collection and Distribution


Wardian Cases


The Scientific Elite


The Kew Circle: Personal Networks


The Second Generation


The Imperial Stage



Kew and Cinchona


The Effects of the Sepoy Revolt


Malaria


Cinchona Bark


Indigenous Use?


Reasons and Rationales


The Cinchona Transfer


From Wild to Cultivated: The Development Process


The Nilgiris


Bengal


Ceylon


South American Market


Quinine: An Arm of Empire


Quinine and the Penetration of Africa


Local Effects of Cinchona Plantations


Postscript



Rubber--A New Plantation Crop and Industrial Raw Material


The Cinchona Model


The Botany of Rubber


Wild Rubber


Amazonian Rubber on the World Market


The Rubber Trade and the Indian Population


Final Boom and Bust


Wild Rubber Assessed


From Wild to Cultivated


The Experimental Years


Labor


Rubber and the Empire



Sisal and the Kew Bulletin


The Commercial Agaves


A Yucatan Hacienda


Plant Removals


Bahama Hemp


Sisal in Brazil


Summary



Kew and Empire: Conclusions


Some Architectural Symbols



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


References


Subject Index