Inventing the indigenous: local knowledge and natural history in early modern europe
Auteur :
Cooper, Alix
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521870870
Date de publication :
19 mars 2007
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
520 g
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.