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The Garden Politic - Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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The Garden Politic - Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
Series: America and the Long 19th Century
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How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled
Americans to radically re-envision politics and society The Garden
Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped
nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race,
gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early
republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of
American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however, these
ideas and narratives were unsettled by the unprecedented scale at
which the United States and European empires prospected for
valuable plants and exchanged them across the globe. Drawing on
ecocriticism, New Materialism, environmental history, and the
history of science—and crossing disciplinary and national
boundaries—The Garden Politic shows how new ideas about
cultivation and plant life could be mobilized to divergent
political and social ends. Reading the work of influential
nineteenth-century authors from a botanical perspective, Mary Kuhn
recovers how domestic political issues were entangled with the
global circulation and science of plants. The diversity of Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s own gardens contributed to the evolution of her
racial politics and abolitionist strategies. Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s struggles in his garden inspired him to write stories
in which plants defy human efforts to impose order. Radical
scientific ideas about plant intelligence and sociality prompted
Emily Dickinson to imagine a human polity that embraces kinship
with the natural world. Yet other writers, including Frederick
Douglass, cautioned that the most prominent political context for
plants remained plantation slavery. The Garden Politic reveals how
the nineteenth century’s extractive political economy of plants
contains both the roots of our contemporary environmental crisis
and the seeds of alternative political visions.
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