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Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.
Loaned to Another Library QK21.S7 B54 2012
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Colonies--Spain--History.
- Botany.
- Botany--Colonies.
- Spain.
- History.
- Scientific expeditions--Colonies--Spain--History.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Colonies.
- Botanical illustration--Colonies--Spain--History.
- Botanical illustration.
- Natural history--Colonies--Spain--History.
- Natural history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 286 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire
- A botanical reconquista
- Natural history and visual epistemology
- Painting as exploration
- Economic botany and the limits of the visual
- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color
- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226058535
- 0226058530
- OCLC:
- 706965700
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