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Eugenia W. Herbert - Flora´s Empire: British Gardens in India - 9780812243260 - V9780812243260
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Flora´s Empire: British Gardens in India

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Description for Flora´s Empire: British Gardens in India Hardback. Flora's Empire brings new light to the complex history of British imperialism in India and its post-Independence legacy. Aided by beautiful period illustrations, it focuses on three centuries of official, domestic, and botanical gardens, as well as on memorial gardens and restorations of Muslim and Hindu sites. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 440 pages, 30 color, 60 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AMV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1216.

Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism," however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts, many of them little known, she traces the significance of gardens in the long history of British relations with the subcontinent. To British eyes, she demonstrates, India was an ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Condition
New
Weight
1215g
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812243260
SKU
V9780812243260
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About Eugenia W. Herbert
Eugenia W. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of History at Mount Holyoke College and the author of several books, including Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.

Reviews for Flora´s Empire: British Gardens in India
"An excellent history of British gardens in India. . . . [Herbert] writes with gentle wit, elegance and love of her subject which are rare in books on garden history."
Financial Times
"I found myself entertained on every page. Herbert's achievement is that under the guise of a study of Britannia's role as gardener she has written a ... Read more

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