A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic

by Andrew J. Lewis

Book Overview

A Democracy of Facts chronicles the fascinating story of American naturalists who came of age and stumbled toward a profession in the years after the American Revolution.

In a political climate mistrusting of elites and book knowledge, naturalists turned to the American populace, especially its farmers and artisans, for information to catalog and describe the fledgling nation's natural environment. From these ordinary Americans, naturalists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243080
• ISBN13: 9780812243086
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"