The Garden Politic DJ Jaffe who conceived of the world

who conceived of the world as a play of words

Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives

Paying attention to these characters shows that narrative is not always as straight as it might seem

visual representations of sacred subjects

The Garden Politic DJ Jaffe who conceived of the worldHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re envision politics and society The Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however,