Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700 by Cagle, Hugh

Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and...
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Author: Hugh Cagle
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Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700 by Cagle, Hugh

Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700

$142.79

Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700

$142.79
Author: Hugh Cagle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Hugh Cagle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/06/2018
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.87w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781107196636


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2019

About the Author
Cagle, Hugh: - 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.

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