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...A Botany at Its Most Defined This chapter covers the earliest years after Spain’s establishment of the Jardín Botánico de Manila in 1858. With pressure from the peninsula to heighten the garden’s work in botany, two of the garden’s most central employees, Zoilo Espejo and Regino García, aimed...

... sovereign vernaculars ways of knowing botany colonialism Philippines ...

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... The introductory chapter outlines the argumentative stakes of Unmaking Botany while providing a general overview of the history of the colonial Philippines and of Anglo-European botany up to the mid-nineteenth century. It covers historiographical trends in Philippine history that have...

... botanical illustrations botany Regino García Spanish colonialism Malesia ...

... colonial botany plant collecting superstition US colonialism Philippines ...

... The closing chapter of Unmaking Botany provides a summarized comparison of the objectives, practices, and personnel of Spanish and US colonial botany in the Philippines. A more symmetrical study of the two not only corrects historiographical simplifications but also allows for a more serious...

...Assembling a Wider Expanse As US botany expanded in the Philippines, botanists recognized the need to rely on Philippine-born field guides, translators, and laborers to fully assess the colony’s landscape. This reliance on native personnel, however, proved tenuous and, at times, dangerous...

... This chapter covers the earliest years after Spain’s establishment of the Jardín Botánico de Manila in 1858. With pressure from the peninsula to heighten the garden’s work in botany, two of the garden’s most central employees, Zoilo Espejo and Regino García, aimed to demonstrate a commitment...

... As US botany expanded in the Philippines, botanists recognized the need to rely on Philippine-born field guides, translators, and laborers to fully assess the colony’s landscape. This reliance on native personnel, however, proved tenuous and, at times, dangerous. This chapter examines colonial...

... demonstrates, among other things, how Manila-based intellectuals used botany’s vocabulary but cast aside its other specifying elements to position the sampaguita as an emblem of widespread cultural bearing. At the same time, the sampaguita’s elevation to its “national status” was but a US colonial decision...

... nineteenth century for its innovative knowledge-claims that disrupted conventional, foreign representations of Philippine plant life. botanical illustrations botany Regino García Spanish colonialism Malesia ...

..., how Manila-based intellectuals used botany’s vocabulary but cast aside its other specifying elements to position the sampaguita as an emblem of widespread cultural bearing. At the same time, the sampaguita’s elevation to its “national status” was but a US colonial decision to cultivate a brand...

... Spanish colonial botany culpable for its interests in environmental extraction, this chapter examines US colonial botanists’ participation in similar pursuits. It takes as its case study US colonial botanists’ writings on materials of Philippine weaving. Such writings demonstrate how systematics served...

... relied on Clemens to collect material and local knowledge in French Indochina to update Flora cochinchinensis , an extensive flora of present-day Vietnam and southern China. A presiding member of the International Botanical Congress, Merrill critiqued international botany practice that failed to account...