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ISBN10: 0300059760, ISBN13: 9780300059762, [publisher: Yale Univ Pr, USA] Hardcover First Edition 1st EDITION, 1st PRINTING. This copy is LIKE NEW, the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight but slight shelf wear on edges. First edition, unstated but earliest appearance of book. Stated 1st Printing. The jacket is near fine: absolutely intact, including perfect color and design, but slight wrinkling top front and price sticker bottom rear. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES. [Concord, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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Hardback. New. This attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic climes and making conquest seem beneficial. ISBN 0300059760 9780300059762 [GB]
ISBN10: 0300059760, ISBN13: 9780300059762, [publisher: YALE UNIV PR] Hardcover This attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic clim. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]
Yale University Press 8/1/2000 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World (Hardback or Cased Book)
ISBN10: 0300059760, ISBN13: 9780300059762, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Hardcover Hardcover. Nature's Government is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, Western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to more complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and made conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and beneficial. Richard Drayton traces the history of this idea of "improvement" from its Christian agrarian origins in the sixteenth century to its inclusion in theories of enlightened despotism. It was as providers of legitimacy, as much as of universal knowledge, aesthetic perfection, and agricultural plenty, he argues, that botanic gardens became instruments of government, first in continental Europe and then, by the late eighteenth century, in Britain and the British Empire.At the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the rise of which throughout the nineteenth century is a central theme of this book, a pioneering scientific institution was added to a spectacular ornamental garden. At Kew, "improving" the world became a potent argument for both the patronage of science at home and Britain's prerogatives abroad. This book provides a portrait of how ...
ISBN10: 0300059760, ISBN13: 9780300059762, [publisher: YALE UNIV PR] Hardcover This attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic clim. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0300059760, ISBN13: 9780300059762, [publisher: YALE UNIV PR] Hardcover Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2000]
Yale University Press, Date: 2000-08-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2000. Yale University Press ISBN 0300059760 9780300059762 [US]
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