The Garden Politic by Mary Kuhn HARDBACK 9781479820122

The Garden Politic\nby Mary Kuhn\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mary Kuhn\nTitle: The Garden Politic\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479820122\nISBN-10: 1479820121\nRRP: \u00A374.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society\nThe 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 t.