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The botanizers : amateur scientists in nineteenth-century America / Elizabeth B. Keeney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keeney, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botanizers--United States--History--19th century.
- Botanizers.
- Botany--United States--History--19th century.
- Botany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America
- Contents:
- Cover Page; The Botanizers; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Botanizing; 2 Information Networks in the Botanical Community; 3 Botanizing and Self-Improvement; 4 Children, Education, and Amateur Botany; 5 Gender and Botany; 6 Botanizing and the Invention of Leisure; 7 Natural Theology and Amateur Botany; 8 Botany and the Rhetoric of Utility; 9 The Triumph of Professionalization; 10 The Nature-Study Movement: The Legacy of Amateur Botany; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890883391
- 9780807862391
- 0807862398
- OCLC:
- 798534219
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