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American Eden: David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic

By Victoria , Hosack , David;Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN
9781631496011, 1631496018
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
38 MB (40287795 bytes)
Edition
First Liveright paperback edition
Pages
xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

This work "traces Hosack's passionate devotion to his fellow citizens: from the medical care he offered in festering sickrooms of Manhattan, to his critical presence at the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and through his founding of the nation's first public botanical garden on farmland that is now home to Rockefeller Center...American Eden is an intimate personal drama and a sweeping political and environmental history of the early Republic." --

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