Plants and Empire
Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
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Publication
2004-10-30 - Harvard University Press
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7671152M
- ISBN-139780674014879
- ISBN-100674014871
- OCLC Control Number55535128
- OCLC Control Numberplantsempirecolo00schi
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004047364
- Goodreads709344
- LibraryThing1414015
Classifications
- LCCRG137.45 .S35 2004
Description
"In this account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean population."--BOOK JACKET.
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