Cultivating Commerce. Cultures of botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815
Details:
- Author(s) Easterby-Smith, Sarah
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 252pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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Countries:
- France
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants in Britain and France in the decades around 1800, arguing that these merchants made essential contributions to botanical history by participating in Enlightenment scholarly networks as communicators of new knowledge including botanical specimens. Chapters include: 'Plant traders and expertise'; 'Science, commerce and culture'; 'Amateur botany'; 'Social status and the communication of knowledge'; 'Commerce and cosmopolitanism'; 'Cosmopolitanism under pressure'. Deals especially with James Lee, Vineyard Nursery, and Thomas Blaikie