Publishing Nature in the Age of Revolutions
Joseph Banks, Georg Forster, and the Plants of the Pacific
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernest D Rose (0000-0001-9095-3160, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1132-1159 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x20000011 |
| OpenAlex | W3003563052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 48 |
The construction and distribution of books containing large copperplate images was of great importance to practitioners of natural history during the eighteenth century. This article examines the case of the botanist and president of the Royal Society Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), who attempted to publish a series of images based on the botanical illustrations produced by Georg Forster (1754–94) on Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–5) during the 1790s. The analysis reveals how the French Revolution influenced approaches to constructing and distributing works of natural history in Britain, moving beyond commercial studies of book production to show how Banks's political agenda shaped the taxonomic content and distribution of this publication. Matters were complicated by Forster's association with radical politics and the revolutionary ideologies attached to materials collected in the Pacific by the 1790s. Banks's response to the Revolution influenced the distribution of this great work, showing how British loyalist agendas interacted with scientific practice and shaped the diffusion of natural knowledge in the revolutionary age
Art history · Biology · Distribution (mathematics · Economic history · French revolution · Ideology · Natural history · Political science · Politics · Publication · Publishing · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |