Nature, Empire, and Nation : Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.) : 43 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Chivalric Epistemology and Patriotic Narratives: Iberian Colonial Science

2. The Colonial Iberian Roots of the Scientific Revolution

3. From Baroque to Modern Colonial Science

4. New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Amerindian and Creole Bodies in Colonial Spanish America, 1600–1650

5. Eighteenth-Century Spanish Political Economy: Epistemology and Decline

6. How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt’s Ecological Sensibilities

7. Landscapes and Identities: Mexico, 1850–1900

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2632-6

OCLC:

1294423828