03594nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-68759-4 DE-He213 20251030113111.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240928s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031687594 978-3-031-68759-4 10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4 doi GF13-13.3 HB bicssc HIS000000 bisacsh NH thema The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective [electronic resource] : Volume 1 / edited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XI, 273 p. 104 illus., 94 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 ecology History. 65218 Biomaterials. Plant ecology. Plant propagation. 75525 Environmental History. 66986 Plant Materials. 68823 Plant Ecology. Plant Domestication. 75526 Mendonça de Carvalho, Luís Manuel. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 85178 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031687587 Printed edition: 9783031687600 Printed edition: 9783031687617 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4 ZDB-2-SBL ZDB-2-SXB 63793 63793