The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History
(Paperback, Revised edition)
Publishing Details
The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History
By (Author) David Elliston Allen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
16th January 1995
Revised edition
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Science: general issues
Social and cultural history
500.922
Physical Properties
Paperback
312
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
425g
Description
The author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the 'herbalizings' of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of natural history as an organized discipline.
Reviews
"Allen's original [book] ... is dense with picturesque detail, rich in correlation with social, artistic, and technical trends."--The Times Literary Supplement "Allen has made a caring, pioneering attempt towards mapping this vast forest... It is a book which is unlikely to be superseded."--Roy Porter, Annals of Science
Author Bio
David Elliston Allen is coordinator of the History of Medicine Program of The Wellcome Trust. He is also Honorary Lecturer in the History of the Life Sciences, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and teaches at the University College, London.
