Joseph Banks and the English enlightenment: useful knowledge and polite culture
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| adam_text | JOSEPH BANKS
AND THE ENGLISH
ENLIGHTENMENT
Useful Knowledge and
Polite Culture
JOHN GASCOIGNE
School of History, University of New South Wales
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
1 JOSEPH BANKS: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 7
Public life 7
Personality and private life 15
2 THE LIMITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT 29
The character of the English Enlightenment 29
Enlightenment and human equality 37
Banks s stance towards the Established Church and its beliefs
and values • 41
3 FROM VIRTUOSO TO BOTANIST 57
The virtuoso tradition 57
The state of natural history in the mid-eighteenth century 73
Botany and the young Banks 83
The impact of Linnaeus in Britain 98
The pursuit of natural history in the late eighteenth century 107
4 FROM ANTIQUARIAN TO ANTHROPOLOGIST 119
Antiquarianism, natural history and the study of society 119
The contribution of natural history and medicine to the
development of anthropology 134
The exploration of the Pacific and theories of human
linguistic and racial development 160
The Science of Man and non-European civilisations 176
vii
viii CONTENTS
5 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF IMPROVEMENT 185
The nature and extent of the improving creed 185
The foundation of the Board of Agriculture 188
Improvement at home and abroad 196
Improvement and industry 207
Improvement and society 224
6 THE WANING OF THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT 257
The French Revolution and its ideological impact 257
The Royal Society, its rivals and the eclipse of the ideal
of useful knowledge 249
Banks and the English Enlightenment: the declining years 261
Notes 267
List of Abbreviations 295
Bibliography 295
Index 510
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