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Inventing the Indigenous - Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,822
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Inventing the Indigenous - Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover): Alix Cooper

Inventing the Indigenous - Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)

Alix Cooper

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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. 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 itemizing 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 new insight into the historical trajectory of such key concepts as indigeneity and local knowledge.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: Alix Cooper
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-87087-0
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
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LSN: 0-521-87087-9
Barcode: 9780521870870

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