[PDF.70kv] Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Flora's Empire is a garden of delights for the reader interested in British India!|By Dr. Elisabeth Lenckos|Who would think that reading about the gardens of the British in India would tell one so much about their way of life? A beautifully written work and very well researched, Flora's Empire is an excellent source of information about a bygone era.|1 of 1 people found the fo| ||"An excellent history of British gardens in India. . . . [Herbert] writes with gentle wit, elegance and love of her subject which are rare in books on garden history."—Financial Times

|"I found myself entertained on every page. Herbert

Like 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 littl...

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