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Title: Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Garden
ISBN: 0300091435
Author:
Lucile H. Brockway
Publicate Date: 2002-08-01
Publish: 2002-08-01
List Price: $25.00
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: An excellent book
This is an excellent book, very easy to read and covering the colonial economic botany (rubber, quinin, sisal) in a true apealing way.
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2: Best book my mom ever wrote
The author was my mother. The book, based on her anthropology thesis, applied anthropological concepts to the sweeping GLOBAL influence and changes of Western colonization using the British empire as the model. Its a ground breaking book, easy and interesting to read (don't mind the implicit occasional politics). "The best part" (that's an inside family joke) is learning about the relationship between colonial expansion, Kew Gardens, rubber plantations, malaria, chinchona (sp?) and Gin and Tonics. I actually typed an early version of this chapter and couldn't have been happier with the content
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