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The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective: Volume 1

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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.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783031687587

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Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho is a biologist with an MSc. in Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants (Lisbon University) and a PhD in Systematics and Morphology (Coimbra University) with a thesis on Ethnobotany. He is a former visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is now a Coordinator Professor at Beja Polytechnic University (Portugal). He is the founder and director of the Beja Botanical Museum and a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (Lisbon Nova University) and the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture Environment and Development (Evora University). He holds the UNESCO Chair in Ethnobotany and the Safeguard of Plant-Based Heritage and in 2003 received the Ford Motor Company Award and represented Portugal in the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation (UNESCO). He writes and lectures on the history of botany especially on economic botany and ethnobotany.

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