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Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World

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Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World - Schiebinger, Londa
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In the 18th century, bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples from the New World to their king and country. This book explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

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Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World 2007, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674025684

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Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World 2004, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674014879

Hardcover