Overview
- Shows the conceptual and philosophical similarities between plant and political sciences in nineteenth-century Italy
- Demonstrates the key role the Meneghini brothers played in the development of fundamental botanical and political institutions in Padua
- Introduces readers to the complex world of Padua’s liberal circles
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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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, 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.
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Book Title: Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848
Authors: Ariane Dröscher
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85343-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85342-6Published: 23 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85345-7Published: 24 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85343-3Published: 22 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History, general, History of Technology, History of Italy