Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature

by David Philip Miller

Book Overview

This 1996 collection examines the discovery of plants and peoples of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by European scientists and travellers. The contributors conceptualise the process of discovery, which involved active cultural solutions to problems of representation, rather than mere collection and passive depiction. These solutions both reflected and created visions of empire. Studies of the voyages of Banks and Cook investigate their mobilisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521172616
• ISBN13: 9780521172615
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"