Könyv Inventing the Indigenous Alix Cooper

Inventing the Indigenous

Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

Szerző: Alix Cooper
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 9-15 napon belül
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In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about...

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Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2009
oldal
236
EAN
9780521124010
ISBN
0521124018
Enbook ID
02022998
Súly
406
Méretek
230 x 155 x 15

Teljes leírás

In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogues of them. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports - whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco - learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own 'indigenous' natural worlds. In response, compilers of local inventories created numerous ways of itemising nature, from local floras and regional mineralogies to efforts to write the natural histories of entire territories. Tracing the fate of such efforts, the book provides insight into the historical trajectory of such key concepts as indigeneity and local knowledge.

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