Visible empire
Subtitle: botanical expeditions and visual culture in the eighteenth-century Hispanic world
By: Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226058535
Subjects: Botany; Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Colonies; History; Botanical illustration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire; title: A botanical reconquista; title: Natural history and visual epistemology; title: Painting as exploration; title: Economic botany and the limits of the visual; title: Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color; title: Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.