Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature

by David Philip Miller

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This 1996 collection examines the discovery of plants and peoples of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by European scientists and travellers. The contributors conceptualise the process of discovery, which involved active cultural solutions to problems of representation, rather than mere collection and passive depiction. These solutions both reflected and created visions of empire. Studies of the voyages of Banks and Cook investigate their mobilisation...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521172616

ISBN13:9780521172615

Release Date:July 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:394 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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