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Hardcover A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic Book

ISBN: 0812243080

ISBN13: 9780812243086

A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic

(Part of the Early American Studies Series)

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A Democracy of Facts chronicles the fascinating story of American naturalists who came of age and stumbled toward a profession in the years after the American Revolution.

In a political climate mistrusting of elites and book knowledge, naturalists turned to the American populace, especially its farmers and artisans, for information to catalog and describe the fledgling nation's natural environment. From these ordinary Americans, naturalists...

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