INTRODUCTION
-Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan
I. COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND BOTANICAL PRACTICES
1. Dominion, Demonstration, and Domination: Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics, and French Plant Collection
-Chandra Mukerji
2. Walnuts at Hudson Bay, Coral Reefs in Gotland: The Colonialism of Linnaean Botany
-Staffan Müller-Wille
3. Mission Gardens: Natural History and Global Expansion, 1720-1820
-Michael T. Bravo
4. Gathering for the Republic: Botany in Early Republic America
-Andrew J. Lewis
II. TRANSLATING INDIGENOUS, CREOLE, AND EUROPEAN BOTANIES: LOCAL KNOWLEDGE(S), GLOBAL SCIENCE
5. Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica
-Daniela Bleichmar
6. Global Economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature
-Harold J. Cook
7. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies
-Londa Schiebinger
8. Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics
-Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde
9. How Derivative was Humboldt? Microcosmic Nature Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities
-Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
III. CASH CROPS: MAKING AND REMAKING NATURE
10. The Conquest of Spice and the Dutch Colonial Imaginary: Seen and Unseen in the Visual Culture of Trade
-Julie Berger Hochstrasser
11. Of Nutmegs and Botanists: The Colonial Cultivation of Botanical Identity
-E. C. Spary
12. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic
-Judith Carney
IV. TECHNOLOGIES OF ACCUMULATION
13. Collecting Naturalia in the Shadow of Early Modern Dutch Trade"
-Claudia Swan
14. Accounting for the Natural World: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Field
-Anke te Heesen
15. Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftspeople: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia
-Kapil Raj
16. Measurable Difference: Botany, Climate, and the Gardener's Thermometer in
Eighteenth-Century France
-Marie-Noëlle Bourguet
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
