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UNINA9910452103003321 |
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Autore |
Chambers Neil |
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Titolo |
Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / / by Neil Chambers |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-64931-4 |
1-317-30363-6 |
1-281-12494-X |
9786611124946 |
1-85196-535-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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069.0942142 |
069.5094109033 |
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Soggetti |
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Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published 2007 by Pickering & Chatto (Publisher) Limited"--t.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Banks as an Early Traveller and Collector, and the British Museum; 2 Ethnography; 3 Natural History and Zoology; 4 Investigating Natural History: Expanding Limits After 1800; 5 Earth Sciences; 6 Libraries and Antiquities; Conclusions; Epitaph; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Chambers examines the ways different eighteenth-century collections (including Banks's own) were managed, and how the British Museum and collecting more generally grew and changed in this important period of travel, exploration and empire. |
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