Plants and Empire

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Plants and Empire is written by Londa Schiebinger and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674267095 (ISBN 10) and 9780674267091 (ISBN 13).

In the 18th century, bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples from the New World to their king and country. This book explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.