Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myers, Amy R. W.

Pritchard, Margaret Beck.

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.

Catesby, Mark.

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749--Influence.

Natural history--History--18th century.

Natural history.

Natural history illustration--History--18th century.

Natural history illustration.

Physical Description:

xviii, 272 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

Contents:

Toward an understanding of Catesby / Amy R. W. Meyers, Margaret Beck Pritchard

Mark Catesby, a skeptical Newtonian in America / Joyce E. Chaplin

Mark Catesby and the patronage of natural history in the first half of the eighteenth century / David R. Brigham

Mark Catesby and the culture of gardens / Therese O'Malley

From Callicarpa to Catalpa: the impact of Mark Catesby's plant introductions on English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird

Picturing a world in flux: Mark Catesby's response to environmental interchange and colonial expansion / Amy R. W. Meyers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807824593 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0807847623 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

39108703