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Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
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 catalogs of them.
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
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.
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
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 catalogs of them.
Inventing indigenous local knowledge and natural history early modern ...
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 catalogs of them.
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
As Alix Cooper argues in this innovative new book, interest in the local, indigenous nature of Europe was just as intense and just as productive in the early modern period.
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
Drawing on cultural, social, and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports -- whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco -- early modern Europeans began to take inventory of their own "indigenous ...
Inventing the Indigenous
In response, compilers of local inventories created numerous ways of itemizing nature, from local floras and regional mineralogies to efforts to write the natural histories of entire territories.
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
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.
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early ...
The pages of early modern natural histories expose the plasticity of the natural world, and the variegated nature of the encounter between human and animal in this period.
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