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024	7		_a10.9783/9780812205053 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780812205053
035			_a(DE-B1597)449468
035			_a(OCoLC)979779113
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aSB457.54 _b.H47 2011
072		7	_aARC008000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a635.0954
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHerbert, Eugenia W. _eautore
245	1	0	_aFlora's Empire : _bBritish Gardens in India / _cEugenia W. Herbert.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2012]
264		4	_c©2011
300			_a1 online resource (440 p.) : _b30 color, 60 b/w illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aPenn Studies in Landscape Architecture
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction: Cowslips and Lotuses -- _tPart I. Gardeners Abroad -- _tChapter 1. From Garden House to Bungalow, Nabobs to Heaven-Born -- _tChapter 2. Calcutta and the Gardens of Barrackpore -- _tChapter 3. Over the Hills and Far Away: The Hill Stations of India -- _tPart II. Gardens of Empire -- _tChapter 4. Eastward in Eden: Botanical Imperialism and Imperialists -- _tChapter 5. Gardens of Memory -- _tChapter 6. The Taj and the Raj -- _tChapter 7. Imperial Delhi: City of Gardens -- _tChapter 8. Imperial New Delhi: The Garden City -- _tChapter 9. The Legacy -- _tConclusion: Garden Imperialism -- _tCommon Trees, Shrubs, and Plants in India South of the Himalayas -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aLike 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 untamed land that needed the visible stamp of civilization that gardens in their many guises could convey.Colonial gardens changed over time, from the "garden houses" of eighteenth-century nabobs modeled on English country estates to the herbaceous borders, gravel walks, and well-trimmed lawns of Victorian civil servants. As the British extended their rule, they found that hill stations like Simla offered an ideal retreat from the unbearable heat of the plains and a place to coax English flowers into bloom. Furthermore, India was part of the global network of botanical exploration and collecting that gathered up the world's plants for transport to great imperial centers such as Kew. And it is through colonial gardens that one may track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance. Every Government House and Residency was carefully landscaped to reflect current ideals of an ordered society. At Independence in 1947 the British left behind a lasting legacy in their gardens, one still reflected in the design of parks and information technology campuses and in the horticultural practices of home gardeners who continue to send away to England for seeds.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aGardens -- India -- History.
650		0	_aGardens _zIndia _xHistory.
650		0	_aGardens, British -- India.
650		0	_aGardens, British _zIndia.
650		0	_aIndia -- Civilization -- British influences.
650		4	_aGarden History.
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE / Landscape. _2bisacsh
653			_aArchitecture.
653			_aEuropean History.
653			_aFine Art.
653			_aGarden History.
653			_aHistory.
653			_aWorld History.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205053
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205053
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