Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848

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Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848 is written by Ariane Dröscher and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030853438 (ISBN 10) and 9783030853433 (ISBN 13).

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 GiuseppeMeneghini, 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, fl ower 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.