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Cultures of Natural History Hardcover - 1996
by N. Jardine (Editor); J. a. Secord (Editor); E. C. Spary (Editor)
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- Title Cultures of Natural History
- Author N. Jardine (Editor); J. a. Secord (Editor); E. C. Spary (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 523
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date 1996-01
- ISBN 9780521453943 / 0521453941
- Weight 3.3 lbs (1.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.72 x 6.85 x 1.38 in (24.69 x 17.40 x 3.51 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization - History, Natural history - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94039445
- Dewey Decimal Code 508.09
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Good Condition. 26 x 18.4 x 3.2 cm. Dust jacket is complete but rubbed and worn at edges and corners. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Spine intact, bindings solid and secure. A presentable used copy with no significant flaws. Publisher's note: This copiously illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. The centrality of the development of natural history for other branches of history - medical, colonial, gender, economic, ecological - is increasingly recognized. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the sixteenth century, when the first institutions of natural history were created, to its late nineteenth-century transformation by practitioners of the new biological…
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