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II - Enlightened orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

Edited by
Helen Anne Curry ,
Nicholas Jardine ,
James Andrew Secord  and
Emma C. Spary
Helen Anne Curry
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Worlds of Natural History , pp. 149 - 286
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Barrera-Osorio, A., Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution (Austin, 2006).
Batsaki, Y., Burke Cahalane, S. and Tchikine, A. (eds.), The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks, 2017).
Bleichmar, D., Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (Chicago, 2012).
Cañizares-Esguerra, J., Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford, 2006).
Drayton, R., Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven, 2000).
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Schiebinger, L. and Swan, C. (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World (Philadelphia, 2005).

Further reading

Grigson, C., Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England (Cambridge, 2016).
Lothar, D. and Rieke-Müller, A., Unterwegs mit wilden Tieren: Wandermenagerien zwischen Belehrung und Kommerz 1750–1850 (Marburg, 1999).
Plumb, C., The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London (London, 2015).
Robbins, L., Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Baltimore, 2002).
Tague, I., Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain (University Park, PA, 2015).
Velten, H., Beastly London: A History of Animals in the City (London, 2013).

Further reading

Carney, J. A. and Rosomoff, R. N., In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (Berkeley, 2009).
Dettelbach, M., ‘Humboldtian science’, in Jardine, N., Secord, J. A. and Spary, E. C. (eds.), Cultures of Natural History(Cambridge, 1996), pp. 287–304.
Drayton, R., Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven, 2000).
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Schiebinger, L. and Swan, C. (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World (Philadelphia, 2005).

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