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    Online Resource
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
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    almahu_9949744268102882
    Format: 1 online resource (xv, 258 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    ISBN: 9781009200486 (ebook)
    Series Statement: Science in history
    Content: This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation - the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities - Brixius examines the production of knowledge on an island without long-established traditions of botany as understood by Europeans. Once foreign plants and knowledge arrived in Mauritius, they were adapted to new environmental circumstances and a new socio-cultural space. Brixius explores how French colonists, settlers, mediators, labourers and enslaved people experienced and shaped the island's botanical past, centring the contributions of subaltern actors. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, within a melting pot of cultivation traditions from around the world, she presents a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Apr 2024). , limits of French colonial visions and science -- , acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China -- , Agriculture and everyday knowledge -- , Enslaved people as knowledge carriers -- , cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia -- , Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge.
    Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781009200448
    Language: English
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