Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World Book

	Introduction	1
1	Dominion, demonstration, and domination : religious doctrine, territorial politics, and French plant collection	19
2	Walnuts at Hudson Bay, coral reefs in Gotland : the colonialism of Linnaean botany	34
3	Mission gardens : natural history and global expansion, 1720-1820	49
4	Gathering for the republic : botany in early Republic America	66
5	Books, bodies, and fields : sixteenth-century transatlantic encounters with New World Materia Medica	83
6	Global economics and local knowledge in the East Indies : Jacobus Bontius learns the facts of nature	100
7	Prospecting for drugs : European naturalists in the West Indies	119
8	Linnaean botany and Spanish imperial biopolitics	134
9	How derivative was Humboldt : microcosmic nature narratives in early modern Spanish America and (other) origins of Humboldt's ecological sensibilites	148
10	The conquest of spice and the Dutch colonial imaginary : seen and unseen in the visual culture of trade	169
11	Of nutmegs and botanists : the colonial cultivation of botanical identity	187
12	Out of Africa : Colonial rice history in the Black Atlantic	204
13	Collecting Naturalia in the shadow of early modern Dutch trade	223
14	Accounting for the natural world : double-entry bookkeeping in the field	237
15	Surgeons, fakirs, merchants, and craftspeople : making L'Empereur's Jardin in early modern South Asia	252
16	Measurable difference : botany, climate, and the gardener's thermometer in Eighteenth-Century France	270