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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452103003321

Autore

Chambers Neil

Titolo

Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830 / / by Neil Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-64931-4

1-317-30363-6

1-281-12494-X

9786611124946

1-85196-535-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

069.0942142

069.5094109033

Soggetti

Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2007 by Pickering & Chatto (Publisher) Limited"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.