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Nature, Empire, and Nation : Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World /
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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Chivalric Epistemology and Patriotic Narratives: Iberian Colonial Science
- 2. The Colonial Iberian Roots of the Scientific Revolution
- 3. From Baroque to Modern Colonial Science
- 4. New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Amerindian and Creole Bodies in Colonial Spanish America, 1600-1650
- 5. Eighteenth-Century Spanish Political Economy: Epistemology and Decline
- 6. How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities
- 7. Landscapes and Identities: Mexico, 1850-1900
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index