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Title:

ASSEMBLING THE TROPICS
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN PORTUGAL''S EMPIRE, 1450-1700

By:

Hugh Cagle

Format:

Paperback / softback

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£26.00

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ISBN 10:

1316647420

ISBN 13:

9781316647424

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 December, 2019

Series:

Studies in Comparative World History

Pages:

384

Description:

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal''s empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.

Illustrations:

Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Maps; 22 Halftones, black and white

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