Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848

Ariane Dröscher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVIII, 300 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-85342-6 (ISBN)

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This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist GiuseppeMeneghini, illustrating the unspoken dreams of progress and a new social order, but also sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between the Paduan elite and Austrian rule before the 1848 revolution. A closer look at park designs, gardening associations and networks, fl ower exhibitions, agricultural societies, organicist metaphors, and botanical research on the organization of living bodies opens up unexpected parallels between actors and ideas of two apparently distant areas: botany and political economy.

Ariana Droscher is an independent scholar based in Bologna, Italy.

1. Introduction.- 2. Paduan Networks.- 3. Plants and the Social Climb of the Meneghini Family.- 4. Garden Policies.- 5. Growing Up in A Progessive Environment. -6. Organization, Cooperation, and Progress in the Paduan Political Economy.- 7. Progress, Evolution, and Cellular Constitution.- 8. The Sweeping Power of Horticulture.- 9. Cultivating Lands and People.- 10. Revolutionaries and Their Failures.- 11. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 300 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
Schlagworte	1848 Revolution • botanical history • Giuseppe Meneghini • history of botany • History of Science • Natural History • pre-Darwinian evolution
ISBN-10	3-030-85342-X / 303085342X
ISBN-13	978-3-030-85342-6 / 9783030853426
Zustand	Neuware