Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America It is also a deeply

It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature's capacity to make sense of the unthinkable

As the authorities and the media surround the premises

and enchanted palaces where he experienced "every pleasure imaginable

But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange

Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America It is also a deeplyHow 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,