Assembling the Tropics
Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450–1700
Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781316647424 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781316647424 (ISBN)
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional accounts of the Scientific Revolution. The history of 'the tropics' is the story of science in Europe's first global empire. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, Portugal established colonies from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia and South America, enabling the earliest comparisons of nature and disease across the tropical world. Assembling the Tropics shows how the proliferation of colonial approaches to medicine and natural history led to the assemblage of 'the tropics' as a single, coherent, and internally consistent global region. This is a story about how places acquire medical meaning, about how nature and disease become objects of scientific inquiry, and about what is at stake when that happens.
From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional accounts of the Scientific Revolution. The history of 'the tropics' is the story of science in Europe's first global empire. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, Portugal established colonies from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia and South America, enabling the earliest comparisons of nature and disease across the tropical world. Assembling the Tropics shows how the proliferation of colonial approaches to medicine and natural history led to the assemblage of 'the tropics' as a single, coherent, and internally consistent global region. This is a story about how places acquire medical meaning, about how nature and disease become objects of scientific inquiry, and about what is at stake when that happens.
Hugh Cagle is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Utah, where he is also Director of the International Studies program.
1. Reading between the lines: a prologue; Part I. The Coast of Africa, 1450–1550: 2. Dead reckonings; Part II. The Indian Ocean World, 1500–1600: 3. Itineraries and inventories; 4. Drug traffic; 5. Facts and fictions; Part III. The Portuguese Atlantic, 1550–1700: 6. Moral hazards; 7. Split decisions; 8. Fault lines; 9. Epilogue: South-South exchanges.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Comparative World History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Maps; 22 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781316647424 / 9781316647424 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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