Nature, Environment, and Empire
21H.968J · History, Science, Technology, and Society · Graduate · Spring 2010
Prof. Harriet Ritvo
This class examines the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and exploration and exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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