Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren.

Chapel Hill ; London : published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, [1998], ©1998.

xviii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index

Toward an understanding of Catesby / Amy R. W. Meyers, Margaret Beck Pritchard -- Mark Catesby, a skeptical Newtonian in America / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Mark Catesby and the patronage of natural history in the first half of the eighteenth century / David R. Brigham -- Mark Catesby and the culture of gardens / Therese O'Malley -- From Callicarpa to Catalpa: the impact of Mark Catesby's plant introductions on English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Picturing a world in flux: Mark Catesby's response to environmental interchange and colonial expansion / Amy R. W. Meyers.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Cambridge Med.