Plants and politics in Padua during the Age of Revolution, 1820-1848 / Ariane Droscher.
2021
DG975.P15
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Title
Plants and politics in Padua during the Age of Revolution, 1820-1848 / Ariane Droscher.
Author
Dröscher, Ariane, author.
ISBN
9783030853433 (electronic bk.)
3030853438 (electronic bk.)
9783030853426
303085342X
3030853438 (electronic bk.)
9783030853426
303085342X
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 300 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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10.1007/978-3-030-85343-3 doi
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DG975.P15
Dewey Decimal Classification
945.32108
Summary
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 Giuseppe Meneghini, 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, flower 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology, 2730-9738
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Plants and politics in Padua during the Age of Revolution, 1820-1848.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.