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Urban Sociability and Regional Natural History in Dresden, 1800-1850
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4829854 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denise Phillips (0000-0002-1054-9422, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Pages | 43-59 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/649376 |
| OpenAlex | W2087085978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Over the course of the nineteenth century, civic natural historical societies appeared in large numbers across the German states. This article examines the local conditions that led to the emergence of one of these groups, the Isis Society in Dresden. Devoted primarily to researching the immediately surrounding "nature of the fatherland," societies such as the Isis incorporated new groups of middle-class men into the organized pursuit of natural history. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, interest in natural history had increased along with recreational use of the surrounding countryside by the urban middle classes. As a collective pursuit, regional natural history gained much of its epistemological rationale from this broader urban culture, which valued collecting and country excursions as marks of cultivation. By the late 1840s, leading naturalists' ties to liberal political dissent added an additional layer of meaning to civic knowledge of the fatherland
Archaeology · Dissent · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Fatherland · German · Natural history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European history and politics · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |