Plants and Empire - Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Klappentext In the 18th century, bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples from the New World to their king and country. This book explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations. Zusammenfassung In the 18th century! bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines! luxuries! and staples from the New World to their king and country. This book explores the movement! triumph! and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

Product details

• Authors: Londa Schiebinger, Schiebinger Londa
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780674025684
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02568-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, NATURE / Plants / General, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Botany and plant sciences