The Botanizers : Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America EPUB
by Elizabeth B. Keeney
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Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
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- Pages:220 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2000
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- ISBN:9780807862391
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:220 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780807862391