Screen LibraryEmpire's nature：Mark Catesby's new world vision
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill |
| Publication Dates: | c1998. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 272 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
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0807824593 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0807847623 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q111 |
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Q111 N91 |
| Call Number: | N91/E551 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Toward an understanding of Catesby / Amy R. W. Meyers, Margaret Beck Pritchard -- Mark Catesby, a skeptical Newtonian in America / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Mark Catesby and the patronage of natural history in the first half of the eighteenth century / David R. Brigham -- Mark Catesby and the culture of gardens / Therese O'Malley -- From Callicarpa to Catalpa: the impact of Mark Catesby's plant introductions on English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Picturing a world in flux: Mark Catesby's response to environmental interchange and colonial expansion / Amy R. W. Meyers. |