NATURE, EMPIRE, AND NATION by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra ( 9780804755443 )

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NATURE, EMPIRE, AND NATION
EXPLORATIONS OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE IBERIAN WORLD

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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

9 November, 2006

Pages:

244

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This collection of essay 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.

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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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