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

Abstract

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 aesthetic empire: 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 Hoem 15. Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: three Samoan dinners Alessandro Duranti 16. Visions of empire: afterword Simon Schaffer.