Inventing the indigenous: local knowledge and natural history in early modern europe
Auteur :
Cooper, Alix
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521124010
Date de publication :
17 déc. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
350 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, and 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' natural worlds.