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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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford (California) :
Stanford University Press
2006
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Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b18555718*spi |
Sumario: | 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 |
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Descripción Física: | XIV, 230 p. : il. ; 24 cm |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 195-224) e índice |
ISBN: | 9780804755436 |