03383nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001500186072002300201072001400224245013000238250001800368264006900386300006500455336002600520337002600546338003600572347002400608505075700632520091901389650003502308650001802343650001902361650003002380650003402410650002802444650001902472650003202491700010702523710003402630773002602664776003602690776003602726776003602762856004602798912001402844912001402858999001702872978-3-031-68759-4DE-He21320251030113111.0cr nn 008mamaa240928s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316875949978-3-031-68759-47 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.965218 0aBiomaterials. 0aPlant ecology. 0aPlant propagation.97552514aEnvironmental History.96698624aPlant Materials.96882324aPlant Ecology.24aPlant Domestication.9755261 aMendonça de Carvalho, Luís Manuel.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt9851782 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303168758708iPrinted edition:z978303168760008iPrinted edition:z978303168761740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4  aZDB-2-SBL  aZDB-2-SXB  c63793d63793