“Without Science Our Herrings Would Still Be Caught by Foreigners”: A Local Modernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. “To Apply Nature to Economics and Vice Versa” 1
4. “A Geography of Nature”: Natural Philosophy 14
5. “A Clapper intoa Bell”: Floral Names 33
6. “The Lapp Is Our Teacher”: Medicine and Ethnography 56
7. “God’s Endless Larder”: Theology 82
8. “A NewWorld—Pepper, Ginger, Cardamon”: Economic Theory 95
9. “Should Coconuts Chance to Come into My Hands”: Acclimatization Experiments 113
10. “The Lord of All of Sweden’s Clams”: A Local Life 140
11. “His Farmers Dressed in Mourning”: The Fate of Linnaeus’ Ideas in Sweden 164
12. “Without Science Our Herrings Would Still Be Caught by Foreigners”: A Local Modernity 187
13. Appendix A: Chronology of Linnaeus and Linnaeana 195
14. Appendix B: Biographical References 202
15. Abbreviations 213
16. Notes 215
17. Works Cited 263
18. Acknowledgments 283
19. Index 287