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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