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Science 14 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5707, pp. 210 - 211
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107113
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Lost in Translation?

A review by Stuart McCook

Plants and Empire Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
by Londa Schiebinger
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 318 pp. $39.95, £25.95, euro36.90. ISBN 0-674-01487-1.

The author examines the factors that influenced how and to what extent knowledge of plants used by indigenous and African inhabitants of the Caribbean moved into--and failed to move into--Europe and colonial plantations around the world.
The reviewer is in the Department of History, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. E-mail: sgmccook{at}uoguelph.ca

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