Botany of empire: plant worlds and the scientific legacies of colonialism
Auteur :
Subramaniam, Banu
Éditeur :
University of Washington Press
ISBN :
9780295752457
Date de publication :
25 juin 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
590 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
We see how colonizers obliterated plant time’s deep history to create a reductionist system that imposed a Latin-based naming system, drew on the imagined sex lives of European elites to explain plant sexuality, and discussed foreign plants like foreign humans.