num_pages: 288
description: This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian 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.
language: English
title: Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
titlecomplete: Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
genres: History, History Of Science
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Stanford University Press