Exporting French Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yotam A Tsal (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-249 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-11626737 |
| OpenAlex | W4410878032 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
In 1819 a monumental collection of natural history was transported from Paris to Edinburgh. In 1820, the manual written by its owner, Louis Dufresne, one of the first to use the term taxidermy, was translated from French into English for the use of museums and travelers in the Anglophone world. Archival research and computational methods make it possible to chart the transportation of the collection and the translation and reception of the manual. This episode in the exportation of a highly refined, perfected, and rulebound version of the natural world gave the French a competitive advantage in the early nineteenth-century transnational market for natural history knowledge and specimens
Political science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
Early Modern Things
Taxidermy
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Histoire et description du Muséum Royal d'histoire naturelle /
Instruments, travel and science
Women peers in the scientific realm
The Savant and the State
Utopia's Garden. French natural history from Old Regime to Revolution
The international electrical units
Network Theory, Plot Analysis
The Rhinoceros and the Chatham Railway
The Stuff of Translation and Independent Female Scientific Authorship
Enjeux sociaux et politiques de la « vulgarisation scientifique» en révolution ( 1780-1810)
Seized natural-history collections and the redefinition of scientific cosmopolitanism in the era of the French Revolution
The Spirit of System
The Animal Body As Medium
The Congress on Definitive Metric Standards, 1798-1799
Collecting the World
A Science Empire in Napoleonic France
The French Enlightenment Network
Democratic Enlightenment
The Dilemmas of an Upright Man, Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science
Re-Creating Authority in Revolutionary France
The Development of Taxidermy and the History of Ornithology
Teddy Bear Patriarchy
Standardization (Standardisation)
Type Specimens and Scientific Memory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |