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INTRODUCTION -Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan I. COLONIAL GOVERNANCEAND BOTANICAL PRACTICES 1. Dominion, Demonstration, and Domination:Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics, and French Plant Collection-Chandra Mukerji 2. Walnuts at Hudson Bay, Coral Reefs in Gotland: TheColonialism of Linnaean Botany -Staffan Muller-Wille 3. Mission Gardens:Natural History and Global Expansion, 1720-1820 -Michael T. Bravo 4.Gathering for the Republic: Botany in Early Republic America -Andrew J. LewisII. TRANSLATING INDIGENOUS, CREOLE, AND EUROPEAN BOTANIES: LOCALKNOWLEDGE(S), GLOBAL SCIENCE 5. Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-CenturyTransatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica -Daniela Bleichmar 6.Global Economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus BontiusLearns the Facts of Nature -Harold J. Cook 7. Prospecting for Drugs: EuropeanNaturalists in the West Indies -Londa Schiebinger 8. Linnaean Botany andSpanish Imperial Biopolitics -Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde 9. HowDerivative was Humboldt? Microcosmic Nature Narratives in Early ModernSpanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological*Sensibilities -Jorge Canizares-Esguerra III. CASH CROPS: MAKING AND REMAKINGNATURE 10. The Conquest of Spice and the Dutch Colonial Imaginary: Seen andUnseen in the Visual Culture of Trade -Julie Berger Hochstrasser 11. OfNutmegs and Botanists: The Colonial Cultivation of Botanical Identity -E. C.Spary 12. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic -JudithCarney IV. TECHNOLOGIES OF ACCUMULATION 13. Collecting Naturalia in theShadow of Early Modern Dutch Trade" -Claudia Swan 14. Accounting for theNatural World: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Field -Anke te Heesen 15.Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftspeople: Making L'Empereur's Jardin inEarly Modern South Asia -Kapil Raj 16. Measurable Difference: Botany,Climate, and the Gardener's Thermometer in Eighteenth-Century France-Marie-Noelle Bourguet Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments