Nature, empire, and nation
Subtitle: explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world
By: Jorge Cańizares-Esguerra.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780804755443
Description: 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.