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Reading the World : British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 - Edwin David Rose

Reading the World

British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820

By: Edwin David Rose

Paperback | 30 September 2025

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesâ"a period that marked the emergence of a global modernityâ"educated landowners, or âgentlemen,â dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world.

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