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Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781503626324
DOI
10.1515/9781503626324
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (38748836 bytes)
Pages
248\244
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:57:21

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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