Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon Science)
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- ISBN 9781840465730
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Icon Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist, Joseph Banks. Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science? Patricia Fara reveals the existence, barely concealed under Banks' and Linnaeus' camouflage of noble Enlightenment, of the altogether more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower in the name of the British Imperial state.
Patricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches history of science. Previous books include Newton: The Making of Genius (Macmillan, 2001) and An Entertainment for Angels (Icon, 2001).
