Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe
ISBN-10
0521870879
ISBN-13
9780521870870
Category
Science
Pages
218
Language
English
Published
2007-03-19
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Alix Cooper

Description

Drawing on cultural, social, and environmental history, as well as the 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.

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