Journal article
Book review: Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815 . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017
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We are surrounded by plants that are not native to the countries in which we live. Some are accidental arrivals but many are deliberate introductions. The first step in the introduction process is the collection of a plant sample. Stating a handful of seeds or dried plant specimens was taken from their native habitat and transferred to a garden or herbarium oversimplifies intricate, complex networks of interpersonal relationships. Fascination with these networks and the long-term environmenta...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the History of Collections Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 206–207
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1477-8564
- ISSN:
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0954-6650
- Source identifiers:
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846455
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- pubs:846455
- Deposit date:
- 2018-05-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Stephen Harris
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhy015
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