Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan

Broschiertes Buch

Colonial Botany

Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

Herausgeber: Schiebinger, Londa; Swan, Claudia

Beschreibung

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

Autor

Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She is the author of The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science; Has Feminism Changed Science?; Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science; and Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Claudia Swan is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University and founding Director of the Program in the Study of Imagination. She is the author of The Clutius Botanical Watercolor: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance and Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780812220094
• ISBN-10: 0812220099
• Artikelnr.: 22956426