★Visions of Empire:Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature

David Philip Miller, Peter Hanns Reill

★Visions of Empire:Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature

cambridge university press, 2011

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

1. Introduction David Philip Miller

Part I. The Banksian Empire

2. Joseph Banks, empire, and 'centers of calculation' in late Hanoverian London     - David Philip Miller
 3. Agents of empire: the Banksian collectors and evaluation of new lands

    - David Mackay
 4. The antipodean exchange: European horticulture and imperial designs

    - Alan Frost
 5. Disciplining disease: scurvy, the navy, and imperial expansion, 1750–1825

    - Christopher Lawrence
 6. The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: a commentary

    - John Gascoigne

Part II. The Uses of Botany
7. Purposes of Linnaean travel: a preliminary research report

    - Lisbet Koerner
8. Botany in the boudoir and garden: the Banksian context

    - Janet Browne
9. 'on the banks of the South Sea': botany and the sexual controversy in the late eighteenth century

    - Alan Bewell

Part III. Representations of Living Nature and their Uses
10. 'Implanted in our natures': humans, plants, and the stories of art

    - Martin Kemp
11. Images of ambiguity: eighteenth-century microscopy and the neither/nor

    - Barbara M. Stafford
12. Global physics and aestheticempire: Humboldt's physical portrait of the tropics 

    - Michael Dettelbach
13. Seeing and understanding: a commentary Peter Hanns Reill

Part IV. The Indigenous Environment: Anthropological Perspectives
14. The scientific endeavor and the natives Ingjerd Hoëm
15. Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: three Samoan dinners

     - Alessandro Duranti
16. Visions of empire: afterword

    - Simon Schaffer.