03364nam 22005895 450 991089018760332120250807153239.03-031-68759-010.1007/978-3-031-68759-4(MiAaPQ)EBC31692712(Au-PeEL)EBL31692712(CKB)36246964600041(DE-He213)978-3-031-68759-4(EXLCZ)993624696460004120240928d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Victorians: A Botanical Perspective Volume 1 /edited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2024.1 online resource (278 pages)3-031-68758-2 Insulation for an Empire: Gutta-Percha and the Development of Electrical Measurement in Victorian Britain -- Cocoa, Cadbury and Forced Labour in São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa -- ‘Beauty, imagination and order’; the Flowers of William and May Morris -- Charles Darwin, Victorian Botany, and Victorian Culture -- Moving Plants in the Victorian Era: Glass, Transplants and the Wardian Case -- Circulation and Civility: Mid-Victorian botany and microscopical method -- Glimpses of the Colonial Collections at the 1862 London Exhibition: The case of the Angolan ‘Objects’ at the Portuguese section -- Developing Botany - Photography During the Victorian Era -- The Victorian Return to Nature and the Simple Life -- Violets and Victorians.The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. It examines the use of gutta-percha in the development of electrical measurements; provides a detailed history of cocoa and the forced labor in the São Tomé and Príncipe Islands; explores the beauty, imagination, and order of William and May Morris’ flowers; uncovers the world of Charles Darwin and the Victorian Botany Culture; highlights the crucial role of the Wardian Case in the global transport of plants; reveals the connection between Mid-Victorian Botany and Microscopy; offers glimpses of the colonial collections at the 1862 London Exhibition; explains how botany was connected with the development of photography; evokes the desire for a return to Nature and a simple life; and, finally, takes us on a journey through the history of violets.Human ecologyHistoryBiomaterialsPlant ecologyPlant propagationEnvironmental HistoryPlant MaterialsPlant EcologyPlant DomesticationHuman ecologyHistory.Biomaterials.Plant ecology.Plant propagation.Environmental History.Plant Materials.Plant Ecology.Plant Domestication.581Mendonça de Carvalho Luís ManuelMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910890187603321The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective4264212UNINA