UID:
almahu_9949597393702882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9781479820184
Series Statement:
America and the long 19th century
Content:
How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society The 'Garden Politic' argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however, these ideas and narratives were unsettled by the unprecedented scale at which the United States and European empires prospected for valuable plants and exchanged them across the globe.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781479820122
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479820184.001.0001
