Scientific missionaries, as much as their religious counterparts, drove the
British imperial enterprise. Chronicling Kew Gardens botanists, Richard
Drayton’s Nature’s Government uncovers how the noble task of
“improving” the rest of the world through the appliance of science unerringly
brought wealth and prosperity to the home country. Published by Yale University
Press, £25, ISBN 0300059760.
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