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American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic / Victoria Johnson.

By: Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Edition: [First Liveright paperback edition]Description: xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1631496018
  • 9781631496011
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 580.973 23
LOC classification:
  • QK99 .U6 J64 2019
Awards:
  • Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019.
  • National Book Award finalist, 2018.
Summary: This work "traces Hosack's passionate devotion to his fellow citizens: from the medical care he offered in festering sickrooms of Manhattan, to his critical presence at the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and through his founding of the nation's first public botanical garden on farmland that is now home to Rockefeller Center...American Eden is an intimate personal drama and a sweeping political and environmental history of the early Republic." -- From the back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks QK99 .U6 J64 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001499069

Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-436) and index.

This work "traces Hosack's passionate devotion to his fellow citizens: from the medical care he offered in festering sickrooms of Manhattan, to his critical presence at the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and through his founding of the nation's first public botanical garden on farmland that is now home to Rockefeller Center...American Eden is an intimate personal drama and a sweeping political and environmental history of the early Republic." -- From the back cover.

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019.

National Book Award finalist, 2018.

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