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Book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall

Download or read book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall written by William Darlington and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall

Download or read book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall

Download or read book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall written by William Darlington and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall  with Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries

Download or read book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall with Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries written by William Aubrey Darlington and published by . This book was released on 1849-01-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorial of William Darlington  M D

Download or read book Memorial of William Darlington M D written by Washington Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection  1785 1900

Download or read book American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection 1785 1900 written by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Hooker s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

Download or read book Hooker s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hooker s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

Download or read book Hooker s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany written by William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Canopy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Rutkow
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-04-02
  • ISBN : 1439193584
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book American Canopy written by Eric Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.

Book A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends  Books

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends Books written by Joseph Smith and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hooker s journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany

Download or read book Hooker s journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall

Download or read book Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall written by William Darlington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall: With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries In selecting from among the several Biographical Notices of john bartram, hitherto published, the preference has been given to one written by his son wil liam, which appeared in the first volume of Prof. Barton's Medical and Physical Journal, in the year 1804. It is brief, and lacking in details; yet probably in the main more reliable than the others. But even that is obscure, and somewhat inaccurate, in the account it gives of the elder portion of the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Contested Spaces of Early America

Download or read book Contested Spaces of Early America written by Juliana Barr and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies unlike any that the world had seen before. Contested Spaces of Early America brings together some of the most distinguished historians in the field to view colonial America on the largest possible scale. Lavishly illustrated with maps, Native art, and color plates, the twelve chapters span the southern reaches of New Spain through Mexico and Navajo Country to the Dakotas and Upper Canada, and the early Indian civilizations to the ruins of the nineteenth-century West. At the heart of this volume is a search for a human geography of colonial relations: Contested Spaces of Early America aims to rid the historical landscape of imperial cores, frontier peripheries, and modern national borders to redefine the way scholars imagine colonial America. Contributors: Matthew Babcock, Ned Blackhawk, Chantal Cramaussel, Brian DeLay, Elizabeth Fenn, Allan Greer, Pekka Hämäläinen, Raúl José Mandrini, Cynthia Radding, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Alan Taylor, and Samuel Truett.

Book Foreign Trends in American Gardens

Download or read book Foreign Trends in American Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition. Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic.

Book Fields of Vision

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  • Author : Kathryn E. Holland Braund
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2010-03-03
  • ISBN : 0817355715
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Fields of Vision written by Kathryn E. Holland Braund and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. The book, based on his journey across the South, reflects a remarkable coming of age. In 1773, Bartram departed his family home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a British colonist; in 1777, he returned as a citizen of an emerging nation of the United States. The account of his journey, published in 1791, established a national benchmark for nature writing and remains a classic of American literature, scientific writing, and history. Brought up as a Quaker, Bartram portrayed nature through a poetic lens of experience as well as scientific observation, and his work provides a window on 18th-century southern landscapes. Particularly enlightening and appealing are Bartram’s detailed accounts of Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee peoples. The Bartram Trail Conference fosters Bartram scholarship through biennial conferences held along the route of his travels. This richly illustrated volume of essays, a selection from recent conferences, brings together scholarly contributions from history, archaeology, and botany. The authors discuss the political and personal context of his travels; species of interest to Bartram; Creek architecture; foodways in the 18th-century south, particularly those of Indian groups that Bartram encountered; rediscovery of a lost Bartram manuscript; new techniques for charting Bartram’s trail and imaging his collections; and a fine analysis of Bartram’s place in contemporary environmental issues.

Book The Poetics of Natural History

Download or read book The Poetics of Natural History written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2000 American Studies Network Prize and the Literature and Language Award from the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram’s botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale’s museum to P. T. Barnum’s American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry James as “halls of humbug.” Yet physical collections were only one of the myriad ways that these naturalists captured, catalogued, and commemorated America’s rich biodiversity. They also turned to writing and art, from John Edward Holbrook’s forays into the fascinating world of herpetology to John James Audubon’s masterful portraits of American birds. In this groundbreaking, now classic book, Christoph Irmscher argues that early American natural historians developed a distinctly poetic sensibility that allowed them to imagine themselves as part of, and not apart from, their environment. He also demonstrates what happens to such inclusiveness in the hands of Harvard scientist-turned Amazonian explorer Louis Agassiz, whose racist pseudoscience appalled his student William James. This expanded, full-color edition of The Poetics of Natural History features a preface and art from award-winning artist Rosamond Purcell and invites the reader to be fully immersed in an era when the boundaries between literature, art, and science became fluid.