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The botanizers : amateur scientists in nineteenth-century America /

After rising to fashion during the 1820s, botany rapidly became the most popular science in America for recreational and pedagogical purposes, and it remained tremendously popular throughout the century. Tens of thousands of enthusiasts, calling themselves "botanizers," embraced the pastim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keeney, Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1992.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Botanizing
  • Information networks in the botanical community
  • Botanizing and self-improvement
  • Children, education, and American botany
  • Gender and botany
  • Botanizing and the invention of leisure
  • Natural theology and amateur botany
  • Botany and the rhetoric of utility
  • The triumph of professionalization
  • The nature-study movement : the legacy amateur botany.