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- catalog abstract ""Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies." "Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various overlapping communities in which he functioned - particulary as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Mark Catesby's new world vision".
- catalog contributor b11126255.
- catalog contributor b11126256.
- catalog contributor b11126257.
- catalog contributor b11126258.
- catalog contributor b11126259.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies." "Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various overlapping communities in which he functioned - particulary as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Toward an understanding of Catesby / Amy R. W. Meyers, Margaret Beck Pritchard -- Mark Catesby, a skeptical Newtonian in America / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Mark Catesby and the patronage of natural history in the first half of the eighteenth century / David R. Brigham -- Mark Catesby and the culture of gardens / Therese O'Malley -- From Callicarpa to Catalpa: the impact of Mark Catesby's plant introductions on English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Picturing a world in flux: Mark Catesby's response to environmental interchange and colonial expansion / Amy R. W. Meyers.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 272 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Empire's nature.".
- catalog identifier "0807824593 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807847623 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Empire's nature.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Empire's nature.".
- catalog subject "508/.09/033 21".
- catalog subject "Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.".
- catalog subject "Natural history History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Natural history illustration History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "QH31.C35 E56 1998".
- catalog subject "QH31.C35 E56 1998X".
- catalog tableOfContents "Toward an understanding of Catesby / Amy R. W. Meyers, Margaret Beck Pritchard -- Mark Catesby, a skeptical Newtonian in America / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Mark Catesby and the patronage of natural history in the first half of the eighteenth century / David R. Brigham -- Mark Catesby and the culture of gardens / Therese O'Malley -- From Callicarpa to Catalpa: the impact of Mark Catesby's plant introductions on English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Picturing a world in flux: Mark Catesby's response to environmental interchange and colonial expansion / Amy R. W. Meyers.".
- catalog title "Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren.".
- catalog title "Mark Catesby's new world vision".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".