The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective Volume 1 /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2024. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4 |
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- 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.