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The Garden Politic


The Garden Politic

Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America
America and the Long 19th Century, Band 27

von: Mary Kuhn

CHF 32.00

Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 07.02.2023
ISBN/EAN: 9781479820160
Sprache: englisch

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<p><b>How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society</b><br><br><i>The Garden Politic</i> argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however, these ideas and narratives were unsettled by the unprecedented scale at which the United States and European empires prospected for valuable plants and exchanged them across the globe. Drawing on ecocriticism, New Materialism, environmental history, and the history of science—and crossing disciplinary and national boundaries—<i>The Garden Politic</i> shows how new ideas about cultivation and plant life could be mobilized to divergent political and social ends. <br><br>Reading the work of influential nineteenth-century authors from a botanical perspective, Mary Kuhn recovers how domestic political issues were entangled with the global circulation and science of plants. The diversity of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s own gardens contributed to the evolution of her racial politics and abolitionist strategies. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s struggles in his garden inspired him to write stories in which plants defy human efforts to impose order. Radical scientific ideas about plant intelligence and sociality prompted Emily Dickinson to imagine a human polity that embraces kinship with the natural world. Yet other writers, including Frederick Douglass, cautioned that the most prominent political context for plants remained plantation slavery. <br><br><i>The Garden Politic</i> reveals how the nineteenth century’s extractive political economy of plants contains both the roots of our contemporary environmental crisis and the seeds of alternative political visions.</p>
<b>Mary Kuhn</b> is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Virginia.

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