Sarah Easterby Smith: 1 book
Cultivating Commerce
Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants were not professional botanists, nor were they the social equals of refined amateurs of botany. Nevertheless, they...
