Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite CultureCambridge University Press, 18 груд. 2003 р. - 340 стор. Joseph Banks's name is attached to various plant species and geographical locations around the world; he was a long-time president of the Royal Society, Privy Counsellor and adviser to the British government on a range of scientific and imperial issues. He was a driving force in the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay. Yet there are few monuments to him and while he has been the subject of a number of biographies, these have focused on his personal career rather than his relationship with some of the major movements of the period. This book places the work of Joseph Banks in the context of the Enlightenment. It aims at a better understanding of Banks himself as well as seeking to provide an analysis of some of the major scientific and cultural preoccupations of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British society. Banks's relation to the currents of thought associated with the Enlightenment is explored through a number of thematic chapters. These deal with the cultural ideal of the 'virtuoso' and the pursuit of natural history and anthropology, the practice of 'improvement' and the political and intellectual forces which contributed to the waning of the enlightenment in England. |
Зміст
JOSEPH BANKS A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | 7 |
Personality and private life | 15 |
THE LIMITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 29 |
Enlightenment and human equaliy | 37 |
Bankss stance towards the Established Church and its beliefs and values | 41 |
FROM VIRTUOSO TO BOTANIST | 57 |
The state of natural history in the mideighteenth century | 73 |
Botany and the young Banks | 83 |
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF IMPROVEMENT | 185 |
The foundation of the Board of Agriculture | 188 |
Improvement at home and abroad | 196 |
Improvement and industry | 207 |
Improvement and society | 224 |
THE WANING OF THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT | 237 |
The Royal Society its rivals and the eclipse of the ideal of useful knowledge | 249 |
the declining years | 261 |
The impact of Linneaus in Britain | 98 |
The pursuit of natural history in the late eighteenth century | 107 |
FROM ANTIQUARIAN TO ANTHROPOLOGIST | 119 |
The contribution of natural history and medicine to the development of anthropology | 134 |
The exploration of the Pacific and theories of human linguistic and racial development | 160 |
The Science of Man and nonEuropean civilisations | 176 |
Notes | 267 |
List of Abbreviations | 293 |
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310 | |
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