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Nature's Colony - Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens (Paperback)
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Nature's Colony - Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens (Paperback)
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Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has been important
as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution,
and as an economic testing ground and launchpad for tropical
plantation agriculture around the world. Underlying each of these
stories is the broader narrative of theBotanic Gardens an arena
where power and the natural world meet and interact, a story that
has impact far beyond the boundaries of its grounds. Initially
conceived to exploit nature for the benefit of empire, the Gardens
were part of a symbolic struggle by administrators, scientists, and
gardeners to assert dominance within Southeast Asia's tropical
landscape, reflecting shifting understandings of power, science and
nature among local administrators and distant mentors in Britain.
With the independence of Singapore, the Gardens has had to find a
new role, first in the "greening" of post-independence Singapore,
and now as Singapore's first World Heritage Site. Setting the
Singapore gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and
botanic gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies,
this book tells the story of nature's colony - a place where plants
were collected, classified and cultivated to change our
understanding of the region and world.
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