What is it about?
specimens of animals and their growing commercial value in the nineteenth century
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Why is it important?
It joins disciplinary investigation in a unique way, through grounding natural history collecting in economic history.
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This page is a summary of: When commerce, science, and leisure collaborated: the nineteenth-century global trade boom in natural history collections, Journal of Global History, October 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1740022817000171.
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