Easterby-Smith, Sarah (Author)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: 252 pages
Language: English
Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants were not professional botanists, nor were they the social equals of refined amateurs of botany. Nevertheless, they participated in Enlightenment scholarly networks, acting as intermediaries who communicated information and specimens. Thanks to their practical expertise, they also became sources of new knowledge in their own right. Cultivating Commerce argues that these merchants made essential contributions to botanical history, although their relatively humble status means that their contributions have received little sustained attention to date. Exploring how the expert nurseryman emerged as a new social figure in Britain and France, and examining what happened to the elitist, masculine culture of amateur botany when confronted by expanding public participation, Easterby-Smith sheds fresh light on the evolution of transnational Enlightenment networks during the Age of Revolutions.
...MoreReview Thérèse Bru (2019) Review of "Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 117-120).
Review Richard Coulton (2019) Review of "Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815". Archives of Natural History (pp. 168-169).
Review Elizabeth Hyde (2019) Review of "Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 98-100).
Review Mary Terrall (2018) Review of "Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 854-855).
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