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Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism - Feminist Technosciences Subramaniam, Banu (Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism - Feminist Technosciences
Subramaniam, Banu (Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
We see how colonizers obliterated plant time’s deep history to create a reductionist system that imposed a Latin-based naming system, drew on the imagined sex lives of European elites to explain plant sexuality, and discussed foreign plants like foreign humans.
288 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 25, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9780295752464 |
| Publishers | University of Washington Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 152 × 25 mm · 506 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Herzig, Rebecca (Professor and Chair, Bates College) |
| Series Editor | Subramaniam, Banu (Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |