Nature, empire, and nation : explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world
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Nature, empire, and nation : explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world
Stanford University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-224) and index
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Description
This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
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@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Chivalric Epistemology and Patriotic Narratives: Iberian Colonial Science 000 Chapter 2 The Colonial Iberian Roots of the "Scientific Revolution" 000 Chapter 3 From Baroque to Modern Colonial Science 000 Chapter 4 New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Indian and Creole Bodies in Colonial Spanish America, 16001650 000 Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century Spanish Political Economy: Epistemology and Decline 000 Chapter 6 How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities 000 Chapter 7 Landscapes and Identities: Mexico 18501900 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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