| 书目名称 | The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective |
| 副标题 | Volume 1 |
| 编辑 | Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho |
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| 概述 | First of its kind book on botany throughout the Victorian age.Multidisciplinary approach is appealing to a vast number of people.A new perspective of the Victorian Age, based on plants |
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| 描述 | .The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. It examines the use of gutta-percha in the development of electrical measurements; provides a detailed history of cocoa and the forced labor in the São Tomé and Príncipe Islands; explores the beauty, imagination, and order of William and May Morris’ flowers; uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; highlights the crucial role of the Wardian Case in the global transport of plants; reveals the connection between Mid-Victorian Botany and Microscopy; offers glimpses of the colonial collections at the 1862 London Exhibition; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography; evokes the desire for a return to Nature and a simple life; and, finally, takes us on a journey through the history of violets.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2024 |
| 关键词 | Victorian Botany; Economic Botany; Victorian Era; Ethnobotany; History of Plants; Social History |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-68761-7 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-68759-4 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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