Nature, Empire, And Nation Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World

"Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist history at its best. The eight essays assembled here focus new attention on a much-neglected area of research: the place of both Spain and Spanish America in the history of early modern science and scientific thought. Canizares-Esguerra's range of subjects is impressivebotany, cosmography, ecology, race, and morebut he addresses each in a lively, intelligent, and accessible manner. The book should be required reading for historians of science, as well as for anyone with interests in the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world." Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins UniversityCanizares-Esguerra, Jorge is the author of 'Nature, Empire, And Nation Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World', published 2006 under ISBN 9780804755443 and ISBN 0804755442.