Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NATURE
- 1 ‘The Nomination of the Visible’: William Turner's Practice of Natural History
- 2 Early European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia
- 3 Conserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture and Nature
- 4 Three Birds of a Feather – Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are
- 5 Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature
- 6 Our ‘Great Entail’: Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District
- COLLECTING NATURE
- INTERPRETING NATURE AND LANDSCAPES
- CONSERVING NATURE
- PEOPLE–NATURE INTERACTIONS
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
5 - Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature
from HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NATURE
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NATURE
- 1 ‘The Nomination of the Visible’: William Turner's Practice of Natural History
- 2 Early European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia
- 3 Conserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture and Nature
- 4 Three Birds of a Feather – Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are
- 5 Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature
- 6 Our ‘Great Entail’: Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District
- COLLECTING NATURE
- INTERPRETING NATURE AND LANDSCAPES
- CONSERVING NATURE
- PEOPLE–NATURE INTERACTIONS
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Changing Perceptions of Nature , pp. 49 - 62Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016