This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century,

The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III a

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