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Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe
Alix Cooper
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| #1299301 in Books | Alix Cooper | 2010-01-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.55 x5.98l,.77 | File type: PDF | 236 pages | Inventing the Indigenous Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An extraordinarily important book.|By Customer|Disguised under the placid facade of a history of botanical knowledge in 16th century central Europe, Alix Cooper has written an explosive and important work, which has deep implications for our understanding of the origins of nationalism and the definition of locality. Europeans have always assumed that they have always known who||"Cooper has produced a succinct and judicious study that contributes much to our understanding of the development of natural history and environmentalism in Europe. It is a powerful reminder of how patriotism and suspicions about the global economy of the day
In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogs of them. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports -- whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco -- learned physicians began ...
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