Reading the World

British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820

Edwin David Rose (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2025
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
9780822948513 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Edwin D. Rose is a Leverhulme Trust early career research fellow in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds and a Bye-Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2025
• Verlagsort: Pittsburgh PA
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• ISBN-13: 9780822948513 / 9780822948513
• Zustand: Neuware