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The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective

Volume 1
BuchGebunden
292 Seiten
Englisch
Springererscheint am16.11.20242024
The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography;mehr

Produkt

KlappentextThe Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography;
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-68758-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum16.11.2024
Auflage2024
Seiten292 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenX, 390 p.
Artikel-Nr.56471692
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Insulation for an Empire: Gutta-Percha and the Development of Electrical Measurement in Victorian Britain.- Cocoa, Cadbury and Forced Labour in São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa.- Beauty, imagination and order´; the Flowers of William and May Morris.- Charles Darwin, Victorian Botany, and Victorian Culture.- Moving Plants in the Victorian Era: Glass, Transplants and the Wardian Case.- Circulation and Civility: Mid-Victorian botany and microscopical method.- Glimpses of the Colonial Collections at the 1862 London Exhibition: The case of the Angolan Objects´ at the Portuguese section.- Developing Botany - Photography During the Victorian Era.- The Victorian Return to Nature and the Simple Life.- Violets and Victorians.mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho is a biologist with an MSc. in Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants (Lisbon University) and a PhD in Systematics and Morphology (Coimbra University), with a thesis on Ethnobotany. He is a former visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is now a Coordinator Professor at Beja Polytechnic University (Portugal). He is the founder and director of the Beja Botanical Museum and a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (Lisbon Nova University) and the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (Evora University). He holds the UNESCO Chair in Ethnobotany and the Safeguard of Plant-Based Heritage and, in 2003, received the Ford Motor Company Award and represented Portugal in the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation (UNESCO). He writes and lectures on the history of botany, especially on economic botany and ethnobotany.
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