03241nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001500167072002300182072001400205245013000219250001800349264006900367300006500436336002600501337002600527338003600553347002400589505075700613520091901370650002802289650001802317650001902335650002302354650002702377650002102404650001902425650002502444700010002469710003402569773002602603776003602629776003602665776003602701856004602737978-3-031-68759-4DE-He21320251030113111.0cr nn 008mamaa240928s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316875947 a10.1007/978-3-031-68759-42doi 4aGF13-13.3 7aHB2bicssc 7aHIS0000002bisacsh 7aNH2thema14aThe Victorians: A Botanical Perspectiveh[electronic resource] :bVolume 1 /cedited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXI, 273 p. 104 illus., 94 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aInsulation 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.  aThe 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. 0aHuman ecologyxHistory. 0aBiomaterials. 0aPlant ecology. 0aPlant propagation.14aEnvironmental History.24aPlant Materials.24aPlant Ecology.24aPlant Domestication.1 aMendonça de Carvalho, Luís Manuel.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303168758708iPrinted edition:z978303168760008iPrinted edition:z978303168761740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4