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Visions of Empire - Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature (Paperback)
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Visions of Empire - Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature (Paperback)
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This 1996 collection examines the discovery of plants and peoples
of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by European scientists and
travellers. The contributors conceptualise the process of
discovery, which involved active cultural solutions to problems of
representation, rather than mere collection and passive depiction.
These solutions both reflected and created visions of empire.
Studies of the voyages of Banks and Cook investigate their
mobilisation of resources. Other essays examine the economic and
theological roots of Linnaeus's natural history, and the importance
of the sexual system of classification in ideas of human nature and
social order. Visions of Empire also tackles the cultural roots of
botanical representations and the interpretations of encounters
with other peoples. Its interdisciplinary approach maps out a more
sophisticated understanding of representations of nature and
society.
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