Book ID: CBB000930247

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (2008)

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Wulf, Andrea (Author)


William Heinemann


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: ix + 356 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the rise of botanical collecting and trade in 18th-century Britain.


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Essay Review Chambers, Neil A. (2008) The World of Plant Collecting: An Eighteenth-Century Obsession. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 397-399). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Christina Harrison
Tchikine, Anatole
Rose, Edwin
Cahalan, Sarah Burke
LaBouff, Nicole
Studholme, Joseph
Journals
History of Science
Science in Context
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of Historical Geography
Historical Journal
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Yale University Press
Kew Publishing
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Thames & Hudson
Oxford University Press
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Concepts
Botany
Gardens
Horticulture
Travel; exploration
Scientific illustration
Natural history
People
Banks, Joseph
Linnaeus, Carolus
Collinson, Peter
Bartram, John
Hume, Amelia
Barrington, Jane
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
17th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Russia
Germany
Australia
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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