Linnaeus : nature and nation /
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| Author / Creator: | Koerner, Lisbet. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. |
| Description: | viii, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4219854 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. "To Apply Nature to Economics and Vice Versa"
- "A Geography of Nature": Natural Philosophy
- "A Clapper into a Bell": Floral Names
- "The Lapp Is Our Teacher": Medicine and Ethnography
- "God's Endless Larder": Theology
- "A New WorldPepper, Ginger, Cardamon": Economic Theory
- "Should Coconuts Chance to Come into My Hands": Acclimatization Experiments
- "The Lord of All of Sweden's Clams": A Local Life
- "His Farmers Dressed in Mourning": The Fate of Linnaeus' Ideas in Sweden
- Conclusion. "Without Science Our Herrings Would Still Be Caught by Foreigners": A Local Modernity
- Appendix: Chronology of Linnaeus and Linnaeana
- Appendix: Biographical References
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index
