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

by EugeniaW.Herbert (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $86.04

  Flora's Empire brings new light to the complex history of British imperialism in India and its post-Independence legacy. Aided by beautiful period illustrations, it focuses on three centuries of official, domestic, and botanical gardens, as well as on memorial gardens and restorations of Muslim and Hindu sites.