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Author Dröscher, Ariane, author.

Title Plants and politics in Padua during the Age of Revolution, 1820-1848 / Ariane Droscher
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 300 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, 2730-9738
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology, 2730-9738
Contents 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
Summary 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 Giuseppe Meneghini, 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, flower 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Meneghini, Andrea, 1806-1870.
Meneghini, Giuseppe, 1811-1889.
SUBJECT Meneghini, Giuseppe, 1811-1889 fast
Subject Plants and history -- Italy -- Padua
Botany -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Padua
Botany -- Social aspects
Plants and history
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Padua (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Padua (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Italy -- History -- Revolution of 1848. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068962
Subject Italy
Italy -- Padua
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030853433
3030853438