Nature's government : science, imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World /

"Nature's Government is an attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by inform...

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Autor Principal: Drayton, Richard Harry
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado: Hyderabad : Orient Longman, 2000.
Subjects:
Imperialism
Botany, Economic > Great Britain.
Botany > Great Britain
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