Tables of Contents for Cultures of Natural History

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Introduction: 1. The natures of cultural history Nicholas Jardine and Emma Spary

Part I. Curiosity, Erudition and Utility: 2. Emblematic natural history William B. Ashworth Jr

3. The culture of gardens Andrew Cunningham

4. Courting nature Paula Findlen

5. The culture of curiosity Katie Whitaker

6. Physicians and natural history Harold J. Cook

7. Natural history as print culture Adrian Johns

Part II. Virtuosity, Improvement and Sensibility: 8. Natural history in the academies Daniel Roche

9. Carl Linnaeus and his time and place Lisbet Koerner

10. Gender in natural history Londa Schiebinger

11. Political natural and bodily economics Emma Spary

12. The science of man Paul B. Wood

13. The natural history of the earth Martin Guntau

14. Naturphilosophie and the kingdoms of nature Nicholas Jardine

Part III. Discipline, Discovery and Display: 15. New spaces in natural history Dorinda Outram

16. Minerals strata and fossils Martin Rudwick

17. Humboldtian science Michael Dettelbach

18. Biogeography and empire Janet Browne

19. Travelling the other way Gillian Beer

20. Ethological encounters Michael T. Bravo

21. Equipment for the field Anne Larsen

22. Artisan botany Anne Secord

23. Tastes and crazes David Allen

24. Nature for the people Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jean-Marc Drouin

25. Natural history and the 'new' biology Lynn K. Nyhart

Epilogue: 26. The crisis of nature James A. Secord.