Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment : useful knowledge and polite culture / John Gascoigne.
Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment : useful knowledge and polite culture / John Gascoigne.
Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment : useful knowledge and polite culture / John Gascoigne.
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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T0391497 , 508.092/B218/1
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English
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Physical content
xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Joseph Banks: A Biographical Sketch -- 2. The Limits of Enlightenment -- 3. From Virtuoso to Botanist -- 4. From Antiquarian to Anthropologist --5. The Principles and Practice of Improvement -- 6. The Waning of the English Enlightenment.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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England
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
Banks's relation to the currents of thought associated with the Enlightenment is explored through a number of thematic chapters. These deal with the cultural ideal of the 'virtuoso' and the pursuit of natural history and anthropology, the practice of 'improvement' and the political and intellectual forces which contributed to the waning of the enli...
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Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment : useful knowledge and polite culture / John Gascoigne.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-309) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
Transferred from N508.092/B218/1.
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T0391497 , 508.092/B218/1
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0521450772
9780521450775 (hardback)
0521450772 (hardback)
9780521450775
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508.092
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