Nature, Empire, and Nation
| Author | : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0804755442 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780804755443 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (443 Downloads) |
Download or read book Nature, Empire, and Nation written by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
