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Assembling the Tropics
- Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450–1700
Engelsk Hardback
Assembling the Tropics
- Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450–1700
Engelsk Hardback

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"From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional accounts of the Scientific Revolution. The history of "the tropics" is the story of science in Europe''s first global empire. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, Portugal established colonies from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia and South America, enabling the earliest comparisons of nature and disease across the tropical world. Assembling the Tropics shows how the proliferation of colonial approaches to medicine and natural history led to the assemblage of"the tropics" as a single, coherent, and internally consistent global region. This is a story about how places acquire medical meaning, about how nature and disease become objects of scientific inquiry, and about what is at stake when that happens"--
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
382
ISBN-13:
9781107196636
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1107196639
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Udg. Dato:
6 sep 2018
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 sep 2018
Forfatter(e):
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