Nathaniel Wallich - Global Botany in Nineteenth Century India

This book is based on the enormous correspondences of Nathaniel Wallich, preserved in libraries across Calcutta, London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and many other places. The work also studies Wallich's professional and private life.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Nathaniel Wallich—A Life’s Correspondence
2. Copenhagen
3. As a Surgeon to the Danish East Indies
4. Serampore
5. Calcutta
6. The Botanic Garden
7. Superintendent
8. Nepal
9. The Straits of Malacca
10. The Forests of India
11. London
12. Tea
13. The Medical College
14. At the Cape of Good Hope
15. Farewell to India
16. Final Days

About the author

Martin Krieger serves as a professor for Northern European History at the University of Kiel, Germany. His major fields of research are intellectual and cultural history and the history of science. He has extensively published on the history of the Baltic Sea region, on global intellectual networks and global consumer goods, such as on tea and coffee. He has published European Cemeteries in South India: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Manohar 2013).

Summary

This book is based on the enormous correspondences of Nathaniel Wallich, preserved in libraries across Calcutta, London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and many other places. The work also studies Wallich’s professional and private life.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Krieger
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032377117
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237711-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, Colonialism & imperialism, Historiography, History of Science, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General