Flora's fieldworkers : women and botany in nineteenth-century Canada /

"When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shteir, Ann B., 1941- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Temas:
1800-1899
Botany > Canada > History > 19th century.
Women in botany > Canada > History > 19th century.
Women botanists > Canada > History > 19th century.
Women botanists > Canada > Biography.
Botanists > Canada > History > 19th century.
Botanists > Canada > Biography.
Femmes en botanique > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes botanistes > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes botanistes > Canada > Biographies.
Botanistes > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Botanistes > Canada > Biographies.
HISTORY / Women .
Botanists
Botany
Women botanists
Women in botany
Canada
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Flora's Fieldworkers
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Women and Plant Practices in Nineteenth-Century Canada beyond "the Usual Records"
  • PART ONE Approaching Lady Dalhousie: New Resources, New Perspectives
  • 1 A Botanical Journey of Discovery: Lady Dalhousie in British North America
  • 2 Lady Dalhousie's Orchids and Other Rare Plants in Lower Canada, 1820-1828: Resources for Historical Study
  • 3 Gender, Botany, and Imperial Networks: Reflections on a Letter
  • PART TWO Collecting and Its Contexts
  • 4 "I dare not say Botanical ... Mine is a real love for flowers": Mary Brenton in 1830s Newfoundland
  • 5 Baron Ferdinand von Mueller's Plant Collectors: At Home with the Australian Flora
  • 6 Alice Hollingworth, Early Botanical Explorer in Muskoka District, Ontario
  • PART THREE Natural History "Old" and "New"
  • 7 Catharine Parr Traill: A Natural Historian in Changing Times
  • 8 "Botany ... a Prominent Study": Isabella McIntosh's Ferns and Natural History in 1860s Montreal
  • PART FOUR Seeing and Making
  • 9 Botanical Albums as Theoretical Objects: Sophie Pemberton and the Logic of Identity
  • 10 Slips and Seeds: Botany and Horticulture in Two Nineteenth-Century Canadian Quilts
  • PART FIVE Expanding Public Practices
  • 11 Botanical Gardens in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Individuals and Institutions
  • 12 Women, Citizen Science, and Botanical Knowledge in Ontario, 1870-1920
  • Afterword: Finding Meaning in the Understory
  • Tables and Figures
  • Contributors
  • Index

Ejemplares similares