Science of Useful Nature in Central America - Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784-1838

List of contents

Introduction. A kingdom of vast extension; 1. Landscape, ruins, and governance; 2. Networks of knowledge and action; 3. Making enlightenment local; 4. Useful geography in practice; 5. Transforming environments; 6. Independence and useful nature; Conclusions; Glossary of colonial administrative terms; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Sophie Brockmann is a senior lecturer in History at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Summary

Following material practices and scientific exchanges through local and global networks, Sophie Brockmann demonstrates how interactions with landscape and environment played a key role in constructing ideas of patriotism and nation in Enlightenment Central America.

Additional text

'Sophie Brockmann's learned and elegant treatment of Central American science in the age of Enlightenment will change the way we think about knowledge-making in Spanish America. While never losing sight of the ground-level view - ruins and rice and plantains - The Science of Useful Nature offers expansive, novel panoramas on a new world epistemology that is both distinctly Central American and ineluctably global.' Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Brockmann, Sophie (De Montfort University Brockmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108421232
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42123-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social & cultural history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Science, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Historical Geography, Central America, Mexico and Central America