Book ID: 115943
Mabberley, David (ed.)
A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century. 2023. (Cultural Histories Series). illus. (b/w). 256 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study was revolutionized – through the work of Charles Darwin and many others – and the new science of biology was born, based on cells, nuclei and molecules. As Darwinism took hold, plants came to be seen as a way of thinking about the connectivity of nature and life itself.