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

Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820, 1, 2025 is a comprehensive biology reference published by Other Publisher. Description By Edwin D. Rose 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.

Key Features

- 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…
- 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…
- Natural history connected a diverse range of individuals, from European landowners to Polynesian priests, incorporating, distributing, synthesizing, and appropriating information…
- Rose positions books, natural history specimens, and people in a close cycle of literary production and consumption
- His book reveals new aspects of scientific practice and the specific roles of individuals employed to collect, synthesize, and distribute knowledge—reevaluating Joseph Banks’s and…
- Uncovering the range of skills involved in knowledge production, Rose expands our understanding of natural history as a cyclical process, from the initial collection and…
- Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pittsburgh Press (March 18, 2025)

Product Details

Publisher: Other Publisher
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2025
Format: EPUB
File Size: 6.0 MB
ISBN: 978-0822948513, 9780822991892, 9780822948513