The Garden Politic : : Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America / / Mary Kuhn.

How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and societyThe Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal sub...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:America and the Long 19th Century ; 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 4 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: A Case for Plants
  • 1 Botanical Nationalism
  • 2 Botanical Disruption
  • 3 Botanical Agency
  • 4 Botanical Abolitionism
  • 5 Botanical Societies
  • Conclusion: An Ethos of Collectivity
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author