Book ID: CBB000773721

Britton's Botanical Empire: The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888--1929 (2007)

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Mickulas, Peter Philip (Author)


New York Botanical Garden


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: 316 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On Nathaniel Lord Britton's influence in building American botany.


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Review Reeds, Karen (2009) Review of "Britton's Botanical Empire: The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888--1929". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 181). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Churchill, Jennie
Adam, Luthfi
Cherry, Haydon
Swain, Margaret Byrne
Holway, Tatiana M.
Zemanek, Alicja
Journals
Journal of Medical Biography
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Technology and Culture
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly
Environment and History
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Halstead Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Northwestern University
University of Washington Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Botany
Botanical gardens
Scientific expeditions
Travel; exploration
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
People
Trzebiński, Józef
Schomburgk, Robert Hermann
Peary, Robert Edwin
Koettlitz, Reginald
Jefferson, Thomas
Gilibert, Jean-Emmanuel
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Australia
Arctic regions
Polar regions
Java (Indonesia)
Sydney (Australia)
Institutions
Vilniaus universitetas
University of Virginia
New York Botanical Garden
Holländischer Garten (Schönbrunn)
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