Collecting Colonial Nature: European Naturalists and the Netherlands Indies in the Early Nineteenth Century
The sheer variety and size of Dutch scientific collections of Indonesia’s flora and fauna are unique in the world. Gathered over the last two hundred years, they represent a shared European legacy of natural historical research and its colonial context. To understand how the entanglement of transnational and trans-imperial networks and actors within the field of natural history shaped the study of nature, this essay focuses on the history of the Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Committee for Natural History of the Netherlands Indies), one of the main state-funded collecting ent... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 134, Iss 3 (2019) |
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Schlagwörter: | History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27579421 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/1ffda17507994d0b9ed0db5788a8bd9c |