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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keeney, Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Botanizers > United States > History > 19th century.
Botany > United States > History > 19th century.
Botanistes amateurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Botanizers.
Botany.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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