Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Cultivating Commerce -- 1 Plant Traders and Expertise -- 2 Science, Commerce and Culture -- 3 Amateur Botany -- 4 Social Status and the Communication of Knowledge -- 5 Commerce and Cosmopolitanism -- 6 Cosmopolitanism under Pressure -- Conclusion: Commerce and Cultivation -- Bibliography
Summary
A new social history of botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815, demonstrating the significance of commerce, horticulture and amateur scholarship
