Alix Cooper: Inventing the Indigenous

Cover: 9780521124010 | Inventing the Indigenous | Alix Cooper (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2009

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Beschreibung

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. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports - whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco - learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own 'indigenous' natural worlds. In response, compilers of local inventories created numerous ways of itemising nature, from local floras and regional mineralogies to efforts to write the natural histories of entire territories. Tracing the fate of such efforts, the book provides insight into the historical trajectory of such key concepts as indigeneity and local knowledge.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Home and the world: debating indigenous nature; 2. Field and garden: the making of local flora; 3. From rocks to riches: the quest for natural wealth; 4. The nature of the territory; 5. Problems of local knowledge; Conclusion; Works cited.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521124010
ISBN-10:	0521124018
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cooper, Alix Alix, Cooper
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Alix Cooper (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.09.2009
Gewicht:	0,39 kg