Title: Nature, empire, and nation
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Science, History, Colonies, Politics and government, Creoles, Intellectual life, Science, history, Spain, colonies, america, Spain, politics and government
LC classification: Q