Cultivating Commerce - Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815

A new social history of botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815, demonstrating the significance of commerce, horticulture and amateur scholarship.

List of contents

Introduction: cultivating commerce; 1. Plant traders and expertise; 2. Science, commerce and culture; 3. Amateur botany; 4. Social status and the communication of knowledge; 5. Commerce and cosmopolitanism; 6. Cosmopolitanism under pressure; Conclusion: commerce and cultivation.

About the author

Sarah Easterby-Smith is Lecturer in Modern History and Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Warwick and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, the European University Institute, Florence and the Henry E. Huntington Library, California. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Social History Society and is also a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the British Society for the History of Science and the Society for the Study of French History.

Summary

Cultivating Commerce is an accessibly written and beautifully illustrated new social history of botany in Britain and France. It will appeal to all students and scholars working on British and French culture, the history of science and social and gender history in the late eighteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Easterby-Smith, Sarah (University of St Andrews Easterby-Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107126848
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12684-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Science in History; Science in History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; France, European History, Social & cultural history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Botany & plant sciences, C 1700 To C 1800, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture, Botany and plant sciences