The Garden Politic DJ Jaffe and intervening to promote the

and intervening to promote the health and growth of clients

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

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

academically challenging classroom where students come to understand the empowering message that who they are and what they think matters

Amply illustrated with evocative photographs and color reproductions of his own and his students' work

The Garden Politic DJ Jaffe and intervening to promote theHow 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,