Nature, Empire, and Nation

Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World

von Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

248 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780804755436
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2006
• Größe: 236 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Stanford University Press