Neil Chambers

Joseph Banks and the British Museum (eBook, PDF)

The World of Collecting, 1770-1830

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317303640
• Artikelnr.: 43975820

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1 Banks as an Early Traveller and Collector
and the British Museum
2 Ethnography
3 Natural History and Zoology
4 Investigating Natural History: Expanding Limits After 1800
5 Earth Sciences
6 Libraries and Antiquities
Conclusions
Epitaph
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix