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Cultivating Commerce - Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815 (Hardcover)
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Cultivating Commerce - Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815 (Hardcover)
Series: Science in History
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Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and
horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold
botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants
were not professional botanists, nor were they the social equals of
refined amateurs of botany. Nevertheless, they participated in
Enlightenment scholarly networks, acting as intermediaries who
communicated information and specimens. Thanks to their practical
expertise, they also became sources of new knowledge in their own
right. Cultivating Commerce argues that these merchants made
essential contributions to botanical history, although their
relatively humble status means that their contributions have
received little sustained attention to date. Exploring how the
expert nurseryman emerged as a new social figure in Britain and
France, and examining what happened to the elitist, masculine
culture of amateur botany when confronted by expanding public
participation, Easterby-Smith sheds fresh light on the evolution of
transnational Enlightenment networks during the Age of Revolutions.
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