Visions of Empire
Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature

Table of Contents

1. Introduction David Philip Miller
Part I. The Banksian Empire:
2. Joseph Banks, empire, and 'centers of calculation' in late Hanoverian London David Philip Miller
3. Agents of empire: the Banksian collectors and evaluation of new lands David Mackay
4. The antipodean exchange: European horticulture and imperial designs Alan Frost
5. Disciplining disease: scurvy, the navy, and imperial expansion, 1750–1825 Christopher Lawrence
6. The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: a commentary John Gascoigne
Part II. The Uses of Botany:
7. Purposes of Linnaean travel: a preliminary research report Lisbet Koerner
8. Botany in the boudoir and garden: the Banksian context Janet Browne
9. 'On the banks of the South Sea': botany and the sexual controversy in the late eighteenth century Alan Bewell
Part III. Representations of Living Nature and their Uses:
10. 'Implanted in our natures': humans, plants, and the stories of art Martin Kemp
11. Images of ambiguity: eighteenth-century microscopy and the neither/nor Barbara M. Stafford
12. Global physics and aesthetic empire: Humboldt's physical portrait of the tropics Michael Dettelbach
13. Seeing and understanding: a commentary Peter Hanns Reill
Part IV. The Indigenous Environment: Anthropological Perspectives:
14. The scientific endeavor and the natives Ingjerd Hoëm
15. Mediated encounters with Pacific cultures: three Samoan dinners Alessandro Duranti
16. Visions of empire: afterword Simon Schaffer.