Hugh Cagle

Assembling the Tropics (eBook, PDF)

Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108195300
• Artikelnr.: 54177353

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.