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Nature's colony : empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens / Timothy P. Barnard.
Van Pelt Library QK73.S62 B673 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnard, Timothy P., 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botanic Gardens (Singapore)--Influence.
- Botanic Gardens (Singapore).
- Botanical gardens--Singapore--History.
- Botanical gardens.
- Botanical gardens--Social aspects--Singapore.
- Botany, Economic--Singapore.
- Botany, Economic.
- Science and state--Singapore.
- Science and state.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the "greening" of the nation-state, and became Singapore's first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Nature's Colony 1
- Chapter 2 Creating a Garden 14
- Chapter 3 Conservation and Forests 50
- Chapter 4 A Zoo in the Gardens 84
- Chapter 5 The Economic Garden 114
- Chapter 6 Hortus Singapurensis 153
- Chapter 7 Improving on Nature in the Laboratory 188
- Chapter 8 The Gardens in a Garden City 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789814722223
- 9814722227
- OCLC:
- 946697026
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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