Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) - Softcover

Reading the World : British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity--educated landowners, or 'gentlemen,' dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world. Specimens, ranging from a Welsh bittern to the plants of Botany Bay, were collected, recorded, and classified, while books were produced in London and copies distributed and used across Britain, Continental Europe, the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Natural history connected a diverse range of individuals, from European landowners to Polynesian priests, incorporating, distributing, synthesizing, and appropriating information collected on a global scale. Artikel-Nr. 9780822967705

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