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14 - Botanical conquistadors

from II - Enlightened orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

By
Daniela Bleichmar
Edited by
Helen Anne Curry ,
Nicholas Jardine ,
James Andrew Secord  and
Emma C. Spary
Helen Anne Curry
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Worlds of Natural History , pp. 236 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Barrera-Osorio, A., Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution (Austin, 2006).Google Scholar
Batsaki, Y., Burke Cahalane, S. and Tchikine, A. (eds.), The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks, 2017).Google Scholar
Bleichmar, D., Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (Chicago, 2012).Google Scholar
Cañizares-Esguerra, J., Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford, 2006).Google Scholar
Drayton, R., Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven, 2000).Google Scholar
Lafuente, A., ‘Enlightenment in an imperial context: local science in the late eighteenth-century Hispanic world’, Osiris, 15 (2000), pp. 155–73.Google Scholar
Pimentel, J., ‘The Iberian vision: science and empire in the framework of a universal monarchy, 1500–1800’, Osiris, 15 (2000), pp. 17–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schiebinger, L. and Swan, C. (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World (Philadelphia, 2005).Google Scholar

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