Cultures of Natural History

Acknowledgments
 Notes on contributors
 Introduction: 1. The natures of cultural history Nicholas Jardine and Emma Spary
 Part I. Curiosity, Erudition and Utility: 2. Emblematic natural history William B. Ashworth Jr
 3. The culture of gardens Andrew Cunningham
 4. Courting nature Paula Findlen
 5. The culture of curiosity Katie Whitaker
 6. Physicians and natural history Harold J. Cook
 7. Natural history as print culture Adrian Johns
 Part II. Virtuosity, Improvement and Sensibility: 8. Natural history in the academies Daniel Roche
 9. Carl Linnaeus and his time and place Lisbet Koerner
 10. Gender in natural history Londa Schiebinger
 11. Political natural and bodily economics Emma Spary
 12. The science of man Paul B. Wood
 13. The natural history of the earth Martin Guntau
 14. Naturphilosophie and the kingdoms of nature Nicholas Jardine
 Part III. Discipline, Discovery and Display: 15. New spaces in natural history Dorinda Outram
 16. Minerals strata and fossils Martin Rudwick
 17. Humboldtian science Michael Dettelbach
 18. Biogeography and empire Janet Browne
 19. Travelling the other way Gillian Beer
 20. Ethological encounters Michael T. Bravo
 21. Equipment for the field Anne Larsen
 22. Artisan botany Anne Secord
 23. Tastes and crazes David Allen
 24. Nature for the people Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jean-Marc Drouin
 25. Natural history and the 'new' biology Lynn K. Nyhart
 Epilogue: 26. The crisis of nature James A. Secord.