1 Introduction
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century | 1
Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine
PART I: BOTANICAL AMBITIONS
2 Botanical Conquistadors
The Promises and Challenges of Imperial Botany in the Hispanic Enlightenment | 35
Daniela Bleichmar
3 The Geography of Ginseng and the Strange Alchemy of Needs | 61
Shigehisa Kuriyama
4 Weeping Willows and Dwarfed Trees
Plants in Chinese Gardens under Western Eyes | 73
Bianca Maria Rinaldi
5 Echoes of Empire
Redefining the Botanical Garden in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany | 93
Anatole Tchikine
PART II: AGENTS OF EMPIRE?
6 The Politics of Secular Pilgrimage
Paul-Émile Botta’s Red Sea Expedition, 1836–39 | 131
Sahar Bazzaz
7 François Le Vaillant
Resistant Botanist? | 143
Ian Glenn
8 Thomas McDonnell’s Opium
Circulating Plants, Patronage, and Power in Britain, China, and New Zealand, 1830s–50s | 165
James Beattie
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PART III: BOTANICAL ITINERARIES
9 On Diplomacy and Botanical Gifts
France, Mysore, and Mauritius in 1788 | 193
Sarah Easterby-Smith
10 From Local to Global
Balsa Rafts and a Bountiful Harvest from Ecuador | 213
Colin McEwan
11 “In Imperio Rutheno”
Johann Amman’s Stirpium rariorum (1739)
and the Foundation of Russia’s Botanical Empire | 235
Rachel Koroloff
PART IV: CULTIVATING IDENTITIES
12 Ornamental Exotica
Transplanting the Aesthetics of Tea Consumption
and the Birth of a British Exotic | 259
Romita Ray
13 Allegories of Alterity
Flora’s Children as the Four Continents | 283
Miranda Mollendorf
14 Ottoman Horticulture after the Tulip Era
Botanizing Consuls, Garden Diplomacy,
and the First Foreign Head Gardener | 307
Deniz Türker
15 Making “Mongolian” Nature
Medicinal Plants and Qing Empire
in the Long Eighteenth Century | 339
Carla Nappi
16 William Bartram’s Drawing of a New Species of Arethusa (1796)
Portrait of a Life | 351
Amy R . W. Meyers
Contributors | 381
Index | 385
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