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This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a 'floristic island' formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.
Table des matières
1. The Genesis of Bogotá’s Mixed Flora 2. Urban Spaces, Cultivated Plants and People 3. The ‘invisible’ Flora 4. From colonial squares to hygienic gardens 5. The gardeners 6. The plants 7. New and disciplined relationships with Plants 8. A treeless and desolate land 9. The alamedas and the liberty tree 10. Eucalyptus: the all-purpose tree
A propos de l'auteur
Diego Molina is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a botanist who turned to historical geography to understand the changing relationships between people and plants. Before becoming a British Academy Fellow at the RHUL, he was a Rachel Carson Fellow in Munich.
Résumé
This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants – showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a ‘floristic island’ formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.
