Plants and empire: colonial bioprospecting in the atlantic world
Auteur :
Schiebinger, Londa
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674025684
Date de publication :
1 sept. 2007
Dimensions :
22,9 x 14,6 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
431 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.