Titlebook: New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture; Denise Phillips,Sharon Kingsland Book 2015 Springer International Publis

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,Plants and Places: Agricultural Knowledge and Plant Geography in Germany, 1750–1810,ce of botany, a number of authors began to claim, could help landowners anticipate which plants might be grown successfully on their estates. It was in part this broader backdrop of regional, practical concerns that made geographical issues loom so large in the botanical literature of the early nineteenth century.

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Rose and Pear Breeding in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice and Science of Diversity,ighlight the particularities of these perennial plants, both of which propagated vegetatively and showed a high degree of variation. It aims to explore the ways in which horticulture overlapped with core debates within the botanical sciences, particularly with concepts of heredity and debates on the evolution and stability of species.

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The Rise of Applied Entomology in the Russian Empire: Governmental, Public, and Academic Responses produced field data. The chapter explores the complex relations between the state and civil society, and between the political and academic center of St. Petersburg and regional initiatives that shaped the early history of applied entomology in Russia.

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1385-0180 ciplines.Underscores the connection between life sciences, eThis volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural pr

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Drawing the Line: Mapping Cultivated Plants and Seeing Nature in Nineteenth-Century Plant Geographyng this tradition, we are also led to reevaluate our understanding of the influence of “Humboldtianism” at this time. From the 1860s onwards, studies of wild and cultivated plants took separate routes, leading to a more specialized genre of research on cultivated plants.

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Introduction, present. Adopting a cross-national comparative perspective, essays analyze disciplinary changes in German, French, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and American life sciences with particular attention to biogeography, natural history, entomology, ecology, microbiology, and genetics. Agriculture i

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