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As the British and French empires expanded, constructing new imperial dimensions through growing commerce and the relationships of industrialisation, the bases of Spanish power were being undermined. Nationalism, revolt, the pursuit of forms of decolonisation (often aided by Spain's rivals) became the prime characteristic of Central and South American politics. This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850, explaining how the Spanish authorities collected specimens for the
Dakar. Thus it also expands the more ‘traditional’ garden city historiography beyond Britain, Europe and the Western, mostly Anglophone, hemisphere. Along with metropolitan garden city developments, especially in Britain and then in France, the chapter points to common and diverse themes in the transformation, diffusion and realisation of ideas of the cité-jardin in French West
. 10 The artist’s handiwork is to make form out of mere matter. And it is as ‘maker’ that he becomes most like, as Sidney put it, his ‘heavenly Maker’ (Sidney 217). Both the ur-scene on the island where Prospero sets out to re-form the ‘deformed’ Caliban and the ur-scene in Wilde’s metropolitan garden idyll are versions of the Creation. Dorian