Naturalists and Society : The Culture of Natural History in Britain, 1700-1900
by
D.E. Allen
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN-10
0860788636
ISBN-13
9780860788638
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 20th, 2001
Print length
314 Pages
Weight
588 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.60 x 1.90 cms
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An exploration of the culture of natural history in Britain between 1700 and 1900. The author's interests are mainly botanical, but he has attempted from time to time to examine natural history as a unitary whole, revealing parallels and interactions between the separate studies.
The author''s aim in these essays, which complement his pioneering books on natural history, has been to find out more about the different categories of people who engaged in this field in the past, and to piece together how the subject has been shaped by changes in society as a whole. For long the historical study of natural history was neglected, being questionably science as historians of science chose to define that word; David Allen’s work has done much to remedy this. One group of the essays included here seeks to reinterpret and document more fully topics covered in The Naturalist in Britain; others look at crazes that swept society, notably the Victorian mania for fern collecting, and at the biographies of some of the leading naturalists in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
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