Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren.

Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxviii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subjects
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749--Influence.
Natural history--History. --18th century.
Natural history illustration--History. --18th century.

Other author/creatorMeyers, Amy R. W.
Other author/creatorPritchard, Margaret Beck.
Other author/creatorCatesby, Mark, 1683-1749.
Other author/creatorOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Contents Toward an understanding of Catesby / Amy R. W. Meyers, Margaret Beck Pritchard -- Mark Catesby, a skeptical Newtonian in America / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Mark Catesby and the patronage of natural history in the first half of the eighteenth century / David R. Brigham -- Mark Catesby and the culture of gardens / Therese O'Malley -- From Callicarpa to Catalpa: the impact of Mark Catesby's plant introductions on English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Picturing a world in flux: Mark Catesby's response to environmental interchange and colonial expansion / Amy R. W. Meyers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98023257
ISBN0807824593 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0807847623 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QH31.C35 E56 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold