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Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World

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Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World - Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge
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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 ...

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Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World 2006, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804755443

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Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World 2006, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804755436

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