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

Informationen zum Autor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of the award winning How to Write the History of the New World (Stanford University Press, 2001). Klappentext "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. Cañizares-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 Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2006
• EAN: 9780804755443
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5544-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)