Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India

by Eugenia W. Herbert

Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism," however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243269
• ISBN13: 9780812243260
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.1"