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

ISBN-13: 9780804755436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str.

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

Opis

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.