| Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World Contributor(s): Caņizares-Esguerra, Jorge (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804755442 ISBN-13: 9780804755443 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: "Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist history at its best. The eight essays assembled here focus new attention on a much-neglected area of research: the place of both Spain and Spanish America in the history of early modern science and scientific thought. Canizares-Esguerra's range of subjects is impressive--botany, cosmography, ecology, race, and more--but he addresses each in a lively, intelligent, and accessible manner. The book should be required reading for historians of science, as well as for anyone with interests in the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world." --Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Dewey: 509.171 |
| LCCN: 2006005163 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.32" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essay 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. |
