Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820-1848

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-85342-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist GiuseppeMeneghini, illustrating the unspoken dreams of progress and a new social order, but also sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between the Paduan elite and Austrian rule before the 1848 revolution. A closer look at park designs, gardening associations and networks, fl ower exhibitions, agricultural societies, organicist metaphors, and botanical research on the organization of living bodies opens up unexpected parallels between actors and ideas of two apparently distant areas: botany and political economy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dröscher, Ariane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Paduan Networks.- 3. Plants and the Social Climb of the Meneghini Family.- 4. Garden Policies.- 5. Growing Up in A Progessive Environment. -6. Organization, Cooperation, and Progress in the Paduan Political Economy.- 7. Progress, Evolution, and Cellular Constitution.- 8. The Sweeping Power of Horticulture.- 9. Cultivating Lands and People.- 10. Revolutionaries and Their Failures.- 11. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ariana Droscher is an independent scholar based in Bologna, Italy.