摘要
英国殖民者对牙买加的热带想象推动了牙买加的生态改造。从18世纪末到20世纪初,殖民官员、海军船长与植物学家等将全球各地植物引入牙买加,建立多座大型植物园,为殖民者提供舒适的物理与精神空间。改造生态环境的行为本身受当地生态环境的制约。牙买加植物园建设映射出英帝国的植物流通及其背后的知识、官员、劳工等全球交流网络,伦敦皇家植物园与英属印度在其中扮演了重要角色。牙买加“热带花园”的形成离不开全球性互动,牙买加植物园亦借由旅行者、商人、展览和书刊报纸等媒介对外部世界产生辐射作用。牙买加植物园建设兼具全球性和多样性,体现了殖民活动对自然世界的规训。将非人类要素纳入历史学考察范畴,有助于丰富我们对殖民主义的理解。
The tropical imagination imbedded in the British colonialism facilitated Jamaica's ecological transformation.Between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries,colonial officials,naval captains,botanists,and others brought plants from all over the world to Jamaica,establishing large botanical gardens that provided colonists with comfortable physical and mental spaces.The tropical nature of Jamaica shaped the transformation of the ecological environment.Those Jamaican botanic gardens reflected the British Empire's global plant network,covering the transfer of knowledge,officials,workers,and labours.Kew Garden and British India both played critical roles in this network.Jamaica not only absorbed but also created global influences.Being both global and diverse,those Jamaican botanie gardens rllcted colonial discipline on the natural world.Taking non-human beings into historical consideration helps to enrich our understanding of colonialism.
出处
《全球史评论》
2023年第1期222-238,383-384,共19页
Global History Review
基金
国家社科基金重大项目“环境史及其对史学的创新研究”(16ZDA122)的阶段性成果
关键词
热带
热带想象
生态改造
植物园
殖民主义
tropics
tropical imagination
ecological transforming
Botanical Gardens
colonialism
作者简介
仇振武,清华大学人文学院历史系博士研究生
