Christina Skott
Biographic Data
| ID | 642026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Skott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Skott |
| SIGNATURE | SKOTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A ruinous infatuation’: Nutmeg cultivation in early Penang
Between 1786 and the 1860s, Penang Island was transformed from a lush tropical island into a British colony covered in ordered plantations. As a consequence of Britain's temporary possession of the fabled Spice Islands, nutmeg emerged as the most important crop, but after decades of experimentation and uncertainty, its cultivation ultimately failed. Although the struggle for nutmeg to become commercially viable was heavily dependent on global pri…
Human Taxonomies: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish Travel in Asia and the Classification of Man
This article looks at ways in which Swedish travel to Asia informed the classification of man in the work of Carl Linnaeus. In the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae (1758), Linnaeus made substantial changes to his earlier taxonomy of humans. Through two case studies, it is argued that these changes to a great extent were prompted by fresh Swedish eyewitness reports from China and Southeast Asia. The informants for the Homo asiaticus , a variet…
Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore
Europe and the Malay world
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristina Skott is Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in History at Wolfson College Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer of the Faculty of History at Cambridge. Her research focuses on Europe's relationship with Asia and European expansion in the Malay world in the early modern era and long 18th century
Linnaeus and the troglodyte: Early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man
This article explores the ways in which early modern knowledge of the Malay world informed European science, through a case study of the classification of humans in the work of the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus. In the 1758 edition of his Systema Naturae, Linnaeus proposed an entirely new species of human, Homo troglodytes, a counterpoint to Homo sapiens, said to be a resident of the Malay world. Whereas this ‘different’ species has hitherto be…
The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century
This chapter shows how Swedish involvement with the VOC fed and informed Swedish natural history. It points to the exchanges of scientific knowledge made possible by Sweden's position as a politically neutral but scientifically prestigious nation. In these scientific networks the Swedes came to acquire a unique role as intermediaries between the Dutch and the British, at a time when botany became an increasingly important tool of colonial expansi…
The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century
This chapter shows how Swedish involvement with the VOC fed and informed Swedish natural history. It points to the exchanges of scientific knowledge made possible by Sweden's position as a politically neutral but scientifically prestigious nation. In these scientific networks the Swedes came to acquire a unique role as intermediaries between the Dutch and the British, at a time when botany became an increasingly important tool of colonial expansi…
Europe and the Malay world
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristina Skott is Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in History at Wolfson College Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer of the Faculty of History at Cambridge. Her research focuses on Europe's relationship with Asia and European expansion in the Malay world in the early modern era and long 18th century
Linnaeus and the troglodyte: Early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man
This article explores the ways in which early modern knowledge of the Malay world informed European science, through a case study of the classification of humans in the work of the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus. In the 1758 edition of his Systema Naturae, Linnaeus proposed an entirely new species of human, Homo troglodytes, a counterpoint to Homo sapiens, said to be a resident of the Malay world. Whereas this ‘different’ species has hitherto be…
Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore
Human Taxonomies: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish Travel in Asia and the Classification of Man
This article looks at ways in which Swedish travel to Asia informed the classification of man in the work of Carl Linnaeus. In the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae (1758), Linnaeus made substantial changes to his earlier taxonomy of humans. Through two case studies, it is argued that these changes to a great extent were prompted by fresh Swedish eyewitness reports from China and Southeast Asia. The informants for the Homo asiaticus , a variet…
A ruinous infatuation’: Nutmeg cultivation in early Penang
Between 1786 and the 1860s, Penang Island was transformed from a lush tropical island into a British colony covered in ordered plantations. As a consequence of Britain's temporary possession of the fabled Spice Islands, nutmeg emerged as the most important crop, but after decades of experimentation and uncertainty, its cultivation ultimately failed. Although the struggle for nutmeg to become commercially viable was heavily dependent on global pri…
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