"The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science explores how plants and practices adapted to a new environment and a new socio-cultural space. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, Brixius creates a truly global history of botanical knowledge"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. The limits of French colonial visions and science; 2. The acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China; 3. Agriculture and everyday knowledge; 4. Enslaved people as knowledge carriers; 5. The cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia; 6. Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge; Conclusion.
