When commerce, science, and leisure collaborated: the nineteenth-century global trade boom in natural history collections

Title
When commerce, science, and leisure collaborated: the nineteenth-century global trade boom in natural history collections
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Coote, Anne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9996-2872
Email: acoote4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:acoote4
Haynes, Alison
Philp, Jude
Ville, Simon
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1017/s1740022817000171
UNE publication id
une:22748
Abstract
Natural history products formed an important, but little studied, component of the globalization of trade in the mid nineteenth century. The trade, specifically in zoology, occurred in the face of considerable challenges. It penetrated some of the more remote areas of the globe; its products were heterogeneous and difficult to price; and exchange occurred among scientists, commercial traders, and collectors, each of whom had their own particular practices and mores. This article charts the dimensions of this trade and offers explanations about the ways in which its complexities were addressed through major developments in taxidermy, taxonomy, transport and business logistics, alternative forms of exchange, and trust-based networks. More broadly, our work speaks to current developments in global history, imperial networks, and the history of scientific collecting.
Link
Citation
Journal of Global History, 12(3), p. 319-339
ISSN
1740-0236
1740-0228
Start page
319
End page
339

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