Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by E. C. Spary
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Eighteenth-century observers variously described the Jardin du Roi in Paris.
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.
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- Title Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
- Author E. C. Spary
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2000-12-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226768632 / 0226768635
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.04 x 0.73 in (22.96 x 15.34 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Natural history - France - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00029897
- Dewey Decimal Code 508.440
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- Scitech Book News, 03/01/2001, Page 61
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