Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America An NYRB Classics Original

An NYRB Classics Original

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Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America An NYRB Classics OriginalHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re envision politics and society The Garden Politic 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,