
- 268 pages
- English
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Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea
About this book
This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonisation from 1910 to 1945.
The shared aim of botanists who encountered one another in colonial Korea to practise "modern Western botany" is successfully revealed through analysis of their fieldwork and subsequent publications. By exploring the variations in what that term should mean and the politically charged nature of the interactions between both imperial and colonial players, it reveals how botanists of the region created to a form of scientific practice that was neither clearly Western nor particularly modern. It shows how the botany that evolved in this context was a product of colonially resourced, globally connected practice, immersed in intertwined traditions, rather than simply a copy of "modern Western botany".
Utilizing extensive primary sources, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of science, colonial Korean history and environmental history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on Transliteration and Third-Party Materials
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- 1 European Botany Made in Japan
- 2 Japanese Botany Made in Korea
- 3 Unsettling Imperial Universality
- 4 Civilizing Ourselves
- 5 Becoming Japanese through Collaboration
- 6 Imperial Transformation of Traditions
- 7 Confined to Imperial Privilege
- 8 Liberating through Provincial Botany
- Conclusion: Moving beyond Mistaken Names for Connected Provincial Tasks
- Bibliography
- Index