Colonial botany: science, commerce, and politics in the early modern world / edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan

Dominion, demonstration, and domination: religious doctrine, territorial politics, and French plant collection / Chandra Mukerji -- Walnuts at Hudson Bay, coral reefs in Gotland: the colonialism of Linnaean botany / Staffan Múller-Wille -- Mission gardens: natural history and global expansion, 1720-1820 / Michael T. Bravo -- Gathering for the republic: botany in early republic America / Andrew J. Lewis -- Books, bodies, and fields: sixteenth-century transatlantic encounters with New World materia medica / Daniela Bleichmar -- Global economies and local knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius learns the facts of nature / Harold J. Cook -- Prospecting for drugs: European naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger -- Linnaean botany and Spanish imperial biopolitics / Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde -- How derivative was Humboldt? microcosmic nature narratives in early modern Spanish America and the (other) origins of Humboldt's ecological sensibilities / Jorge Cánizares-Esguerra -- The conquest of spice and the Dutch colonial imagery: seen and unseen in the visual culture of trade / Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- Of nutmegs and botanists: the colonial cultivation of botanical identity / E. C. Spary -- Out of Africa: colonial rice history in the black Atlantic / Judith Carney -- Collecting naturalia in the shadow of early modern Dutch trade / Claudia Swan -- Accounting for the natural world: double-entry bookkeeping in the field / Anke te Heesen -- Surgeons, fakirs, merchants, and craftspeople: making l'empereur's jardin in early modern south Asia / Kapil Raj -- Measurable difference: botany, climate, and the gardener's thermometer in eighteenth-century France / Marie-Nóelle Bourguet.

This volume breaks new ground by treating the development of the science of botany in its colonial context and situating the early modern exploration of the plant world at the volatile nexus of science, commerce, and state politics.