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Murphy, Kathleen S.

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Portals of nature: Networks of natural history in eighteenth-century British plantation societies.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Portals of nature: Networks of natural history in eighteenth-century British plantation societies./
Author:	Murphy, Kathleen S.
Description:	359 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4838.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3288506
ISBN:	9780549312178

Portals of nature: Networks of natural history in eighteenth-century British plantation societies.
Murphy, Kathleen S.

Portals of nature: Networks of natural history in eighteenth-century British plantation societies. - 359 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4838.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2008.

Through the exchange of specimens, seeds, and treatises, naturalists scattered throughout the British Atlantic created the network of connections that together constituted the community of natural historians. This dissertation examines the pursuit of natural history in eighteenth-century British plantation societies from the Chesapeake to the British Caribbean. It investigates the complicated web of connections and contributions linking not only well-known naturalists, but also ship captains, merchants, slaves, Native Americans, physicians, and others involved in the study of the natural world. Careful attention to individuals, such as slaves and mariners, largely ignored by previous scholarship on eighteenth-century natural philosophy illuminates their centrality to the practices, priorities, and discoveries of early modern natural history.

ISBN: 9780549312178Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Portals of nature: Networks of natural history in eighteenth-century British plantation societies.
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520 $a In the activities of natural historians many imperial, economic, intellectual, and political priorities intersected. British naturalists put their social, political, and intellectual capital to work on behalf of their colonial clients and increased their own prestige in the process. They assisted colonial naturalists as they applied for government positions, resolved legal or personal issues in England, or sought copies of the latest magazines and books sent to their colonial homes. Attention to the circuitry of empire illuminates the relationships linking individuals along and across the Atlantic, tying individuals with various clubs and societies, and to centers of economic and political power.
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