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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

byVictoria Johnson

Victoria Johnson uses American Eden to investigate david Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic through a carefully framed biographical portrait. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and science. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9781631496011