{"product_id":"reading-the-world-edwin-d-rose-9780822967705","title":"Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820","description":"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity--educated landowners, or \"gentlemen,\" dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world. Specimens, ranging from a Welsh bittern to the plants of Botany Bay, were collected, recorded, and classified, while books were produced in London and copies distributed and used across Britain, Continental Europe, the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Natural history connected a diverse range of individuals, from European landowners to Polynesian priests, incorporating, distributing, synthesizing, and appropriating information collected on a global scale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReading the World\u003c\/i\u003e, Edwin D. Rose positions books, natural history specimens, and people in a close cycle of literary production and consumption. His book reveals new aspects of scientific practice and the specific roles of individuals employed to collect, synthesize, and distribute knowledge--reevaluating Joseph Banks's and Daniel Solander's investigations during James Cook's \u003ci\u003eEndeavour \u003c\/i\u003evoyage to the Pacific. Uncovering the range of skills involved in knowledge production, Rose expands our understanding of natural history as a cyclical process, from the initial collection and identification of specimens to the formal publication of descriptions to the eventual printing of sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edwin D. Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822967707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822967705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Edwin D. Rose","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136119554303,"sku":"9780822967705","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95ef32ad-e3e9-4f1d-83c0-4c6fa59c3f5e.jpg?v=1755022405","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-the-world-edwin-d-rose-9780822967705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}