Nature's Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens - Softcover

Barnard, Timothy P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9814722227 ISBN 13: 9789814722223

Verlag: NUS Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and as an economic testing ground and launchpad for tropical plantation agriculture around the world. Underlying each of these stories is the broader narrative of theBotanic Gardens an arena where power and the natural world meet and interact, a story that has impact far beyond the boundaries of its grounds.

Initially conceived to exploit nature for the benefit of empire, the Gardens were part of a symbolic struggle by administrators, scientists, and gardeners to assert dominance within Southeast Asia's tropical landscape, reflecting shifting understandings of power, science and nature among local administrators and distant mentors in Britain. With the independence of Singapore, the Gardens has had to find a new role, first in the "greening" of post-independence Singapore, and now as Singapore's first World Heritage Site.

Setting the Singapore gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and botanic gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature's colony - a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.

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Timothy P. Barnard is associate professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. His books include Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore and Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries, both also published by the National University of Singapore Press.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NUS Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9814722227
• ISBN 13: 9789814722223
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande