Linnaeus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linnaeus write by Lisbet Koerner. This book was released on 2001-04-16. Linnaeus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre economic projects: to teach tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals. Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his family home by growing cash crops in Northern Europe. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his time. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Meticulously researched, and based on archival data, Linnaeus will be of compelling interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science. But this engaging, often funny, and sometimes tragic portrait of a great man will be valued by general readers as well.
The Nation's Nature
The Nation's Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation's Nature write by James David Drake. This book was released on 2011. The Nation's Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examines how a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America's east coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think of their nation as America. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientific debates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn, solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of the Constitution."--Publisher description.
Nature and Nation
Nature and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and Nation write by Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells. This book was released on 2005-10-31. Nature and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nature and Nation explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet's richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation experienced in the tropical world. It engages the interplay of history, culture, science, economics and politics to provide a holistic interpretation of the continuing relevance of forests to state and society in the moist tropics. Malaysia has long been singled out for emulation by developing nations, an accolade contradicted in recent years by concerns over its capital-, rather than poverty-driven forest depletion. The Malaysian case supports the call for re-appraisal of entrenched prescriptions for development that go beyond material needs. -- Book cover.
Nature, Empire, and Nation
Nature, Empire, and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature, Empire, and Nation write by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. This book was released on 2006. Nature, Empire, and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
Screening Nature and Nation
Screening Nature and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screening Nature and Nation write by Michael D. Clemens. This book was released on 2022-04-27. Screening Nature and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the NFB supported the Canadian government’s nation-building project and show the state as an active participant in the cultural construction of the land. By the mid-1960s however, films like Cree Hunters of Mistassini and Death of a Legend were asking provocative questions about the state’s vision of nature. Filmmakers like Boyce Richardson and Bill Mason began to centre the experiences of First Nations people, contest the notion that nature should be transformed for economic gain, and challenge the idea that the North is a wild and empty landscape bereft of civilization. Author Michael Clemens describes how films produced by the NFB broadened the ecological imagination of Canadians over time and ultimately inspired an environmental movement.
