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Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision

Title
Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren.
Publication
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
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Additional Authors
  • Myers, Amy R. W.
  • Pritchard, Margaret Beck.
  • Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.
  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Description
xviii, 272 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Subject
  • Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
  • Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 > Influence
  • Natural history > History > 18th century
  • Natural history illustration > History > 18th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 00-8636
ISBN
  • 0807824593 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0807847623 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98023257
OCLC
39108703
Title
Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Book review (H-Net)
Added Author
Myers, Amy R. W.
Pritchard, Margaret Beck.
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Research Call Number
JFE 00-8636
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