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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The victorians/ edited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho.
Reminder of title:	a botanical perspective.
other author:	Carvalho, Luís Mendonça.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
Description:	xi, 273 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Insulation for an Empire: Gutta-Percha and the Development of Electrical Measurement in Victorian Britain -- Cocoa, Cadbury and Forced Labour in São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa -- 'Beauty, imagination and order'; the Flowers of William and May Morris -- Charles Darwin, Victorian Botany, and Victorian Culture -- Moving Plants in the Victorian Era: Glass, Transplants and the Wardian Case -- Circulation and Civility: Mid-Victorian botany and microscopical method -- Glimpses of the Colonial Collections at the 1862 London Exhibition: The case of the Angolan 'Objects' at the Portuguese section -- Developing Botany - Photography During the Victorian Era -- The Victorian Return to Nature and the Simple Life -- Violets and Victorians.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Botany - History - 19th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4
ISBN:	9783031687594

The victorians = a botanical perspective.. Volume 1 /
The victoriansa botanical perspective.Volume 1 /[electronic resource] :edited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xi, 273 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Insulation for an Empire: Gutta-Percha and the Development of Electrical Measurement in Victorian Britain -- Cocoa, Cadbury and Forced Labour in São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa -- 'Beauty, imagination and order'; the Flowers of William and May Morris -- Charles Darwin, Victorian Botany, and Victorian Culture -- Moving Plants in the Victorian Era: Glass, Transplants and the Wardian Case -- Circulation and Civility: Mid-Victorian botany and microscopical method -- Glimpses of the Colonial Collections at the 1862 London Exhibition: The case of the Angolan 'Objects' at the Portuguese section -- Developing Botany - Photography During the Victorian Era -- The Victorian Return to Nature and the Simple Life -- Violets and Victorians.

The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. It examines the use of gutta-percha in the development of electrical measurements; provides a detailed history of cocoa and the forced labor in the São Tomé and Príncipe Islands; explores the beauty, imagination, and order of William and May Morris' flowers; uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; highlights the crucial role of the Wardian Case in the global transport of plants; reveals the connection between Mid-Victorian Botany and Microscopy; offers glimpses of the colonial collections at the 1862 London Exhibition; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography; evokes the desire for a return to Nature and a simple life; and, finally, takes us on a journey through the history of violets.

ISBN: 9783031687594

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1093690
Botany
--History--Great Britain--19th century.

LC Class. No.: QK21.G7

Dewey Class. No.: 580.941

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