Sarah Easterby-Smith

Cultivating Commerce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781107565685
• ISBN-10: 1107565685
• Artikelnr.: 56895280

Autorenporträt

Sarah Easterby-Smith is Lecturer in Modern History and Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Warwick and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, the European University Institute, Florence and the Henry E. Huntington Library, California. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Social History Society and is also a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the British Society for the History of Science and the Society for the Study of French History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: cultivating commerce
1. Plant traders and expertise
2. Science, commerce and culture
3. Amateur botany
4. Social status and the communication of knowledge
5. Commerce and cosmopolitanism
6. Cosmopolitanism under pressure
Conclusion: commerce and cultivation.