Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of

Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
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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.
Country USA
Brand Stanford University Press
Manufacturer Stanford University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2006-11-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780804755443

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