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Connecting territories : exploring people and nature, 1700-1850 /
"The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Emergence of natural history,
5 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Connecting territories : |b exploring people and nature, 1700-1850 / |c Edited by Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner, Meike Knittel. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill, |c [2022] | |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Emergence of natural history, |x 2452-3283 ; |v 5 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: From Switzerland to the Indies -- Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner, Meike Knittel -- Naturalists' Methods -- 2. Between the Americas and Europe: Mapping Territories through Questionnaires, 16th-18th Centuries -- Simona Boscani Leoni -- 3. (Re-)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Vallisneri's Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) -- Francesco Luzzini -- 4. Flora Near and Far: Accumulating Knowledge on Plants in Eighteenth- Century Zurich -- Meike Knittel -- 5. The Secrets of Indians: Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas -- Stefanie Gänger -- Authorities' and Societies' Strategies< -- 6. Change and Continuity: The Bureaucracy of Knowledge in South America -- Irina Podgorny -- 7. Questionnaires, Parish Registers and Prize Competitions: The Zurich Physical Society's Sources and Methods for Surveying the Territory -- Sarah Baumgartner -- 8. Social Anthropology avant la lettre: The Economic Enlightenment Perspective on Traditional Uses of Wetlands -- Martin Stuber -- Defining Territories -- 9. Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, seen through Alexander von Humboldt's Views of Nature -- Jon Mathieu -- 10. Alpine Landscapes of Health: The Swiss Whey Cure and Therapeutic Tourism between 1750 and 1870 -- Barbara Orland -- 11. Creation of "Scientific" Knowledge: The Asiatick Society and Exploration of the Himalaya, 1784-1850 -- Chetan Singh -- Index. | |
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