Screen LibraryModern nature：the rise of the biological perspective in Germany
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 423 p.: ill., map ; 24 cm. |
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9780226610894 (hbk.) 0226610896 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | N915 |
| CLC: | N915.16 |
| Call Number: | N915.16/N994 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-411) and index. Bringing life to natural history -- The world in miniature : practical natural history and the zoo movement -- From practice to theory : Karl Möbius and the Lebensgemeinschaft -- The living community in the classroom -- Reforming the Natural History Museum, 1880-1900 -- Biological groups, nature, and culture in the museum -- From biology to ecology -- Museum research and the rise of ecological animal geography -- Modern nature. In this work, Lynn K. Nyhart traces the emergence of a 'biological perspective' in late 19th-century Germany that emphasized the dynamic relationships among organisms, and between organisms and their environment. |