Nathaniel Wallich: Global Botany in Nineteenth Century India

ISBN-13: 9781032377117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str.

Martin Krieger

Opis

This book is based on the enormous correspondences of Nathaniel Wallich, preserved in libraries across Calcutta, London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and many other places. The work also studies Wallich’s professional and private life.

O autorze

Martin Krieger serves as a professor for Northern European History at the University of Kiel, Germany. His major fields of research are intellectual and cultural history and the history of science. He has extensively published on the history of the Baltic Sea region, on global intellectual networks and global consumer goods, such as on tea and coffee. He has published European Cemeteries in South India: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Manohar 2013).