Book ID: CBB000045568

Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful knowledge and polite culture (1994)

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Gascoigne, John (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xi + 324 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Drayton, R. (1995) Review of "Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful knowledge and polite culture". Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (pp. 503-10). unapi

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Review Frost, A. (1995) Review of "Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful knowledge and polite culture". Historical Records of Australian Science (pp. 293-94). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Chambers, Neil A.
Christina Harrison
Rose, Edwin
Loring, Lorna M.
Musgrave, Toby
Yeo, Richard R.
Concepts
Science
Botany
Natural history
Great Britain, colonies
Science and society
Collectors and collecting
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Tahiti
Jamaica (Caribbean)
England
Europe
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
British Museum. Natural History
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