{"product_id":"cultures-of-natural-history-paperback-9780521558945","title":"Cultures of Natural History (Paperback) 9780521558945","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCultures of Natural History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first systematic general work on recent scholarship in the history of natural history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eN. Jardine (Edited by), J. A. Secord (Edited by), E. C. Spary (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521558945, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 January 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e524 pages, 136 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 18.9 x 2.7 cm, 0.93 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e' … present work … is excellent of its kind, well written and handsomely illustrated.' Revue d'Histoire des Sciences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the sixteenth century, when the first institutions of natural history were created, to its late nineteenth-century transformation by practitioners of the new biological sciences. An introduction discusses novel approaches that have made this a major focus for research in cultural history. The essays, which include suggestions for further reading, offer a coherent and accessible overview of a fascinating subject. An epilogue highlights the relevance of this wide-ranging survey for current debates on museum practice, the display of ecological diversity, and concerns about the environment.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: 1. The natures of cultural history Nicholas Jardine and Emma Spary\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Curiosity, Erudition and Utility: 2. Emblematic natural history William B. Ashworth Jr\u003cbr\u003e 3. The culture of gardens Andrew Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e 4. Courting nature Paula Findlen\u003cbr\u003e 5. The culture of curiosity Katie Whitaker\u003cbr\u003e 6. Physicians and natural history Harold J. Cook\u003cbr\u003e 7. Natural history as print culture Adrian Johns\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Virtuosity, Improvement and Sensibility: 8. Natural history in the academies Daniel Roche\u003cbr\u003e 9. Carl Linnaeus and his time and place Lisbet Koerner\u003cbr\u003e 10. Gender in natural history Londa Schiebinger\u003cbr\u003e 11. Political natural and bodily economics Emma Spary\u003cbr\u003e 12. The science of man Paul B. Wood\u003cbr\u003e 13. The natural history of the earth Martin Guntau\u003cbr\u003e 14. Naturphilosophie and the kingdoms of nature Nicholas Jardine\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Discipline, Discovery and Display: 15. New spaces in natural history Dorinda Outram\u003cbr\u003e 16. Minerals strata and fossils Martin Rudwick\u003cbr\u003e 17. Humboldtian science Michael Dettelbach\u003cbr\u003e 18. Biogeography and empire Janet Browne\u003cbr\u003e 19. Travelling the other way Gillian Beer\u003cbr\u003e 20. Ethological encounters Michael T. Bravo\u003cbr\u003e 21. Equipment for the field Anne Larsen\u003cbr\u003e 22. Artisan botany Anne Secord\u003cbr\u003e 23. Tastes and crazes David Allen\u003cbr\u003e 24. Nature for the people Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jean-Marc Drouin\u003cbr\u003e 25. Natural history and the 'new' biology Lynn K. Nyhart\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: 26. The crisis of nature James A. 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