Modern nature : the rise of the biological perspective in Germany / Lynn K. Nyhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nyhart, Lynn K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Germany--History--19th century.

Ecology.

Ecology--Germany--History--20th century.

Philosophy of nature--Germany--History--19th century.

Philosophy of nature.

Philosophy of nature--Germany--History--20th century.

Natural history--Social aspects.

Natural history.

Biotic communities--Social aspects.

Biotic communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Modern Nature, Lynn K. Nyhart traces the emergence of a "biological perspective" in late nineteenth-century Germany that emphasized the dynamic relationships among organisms, and between organisms and their environment. Examining this approach to nature in light of Germany's fraught urbanization and industrialization, as well the opportunities presented by new and reforming institutions, she argues that rapid social change drew attention to the role of social relationships and physical environments in rendering a society-and nature-whole, functional, and healthy.

Contents:

Bringing life to natural history

The world in miniature : practical natural history and the zoo movement

From practice to theory : Karl Mobius and the Lebensgemeinschaft

The living community in the classroom

Reforming the Natural History Museum, 1880-1900

Biological groups, nature, and culture in the museum

From biology to ecology

Museum reseach and the rise of ecological animal geography

Modern nature.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-411) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612239861

9781282239869

1282239864

9780226610924

0226610926

OCLC:

435911898