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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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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina: | 069.0942142 |
069.5094109033 | |
Soggetto topico: | Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Joseph Banks and the British Museum ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-315-64931-4 |
1-317-30363-6 | |
1-281-12494-X | |
9786611124946 | |
1-85196-535-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452103003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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