Science and Empire in the Atlantic World.
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Dew, Nicholas. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. |
| Series: | New Directions in American History Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean
- James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (McGill University)
- Part 1. Networks and Circulations
- 1. Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic
- Alison Sandman (James Madison University)
- 2. The Geography of Precision in the French Atlantic World
- Nicholas Dew (McGill University)
- 3. Circulations: Benjamin Franklin's Atlantic as Medium and Message
- Joyce E. Chaplin (Harvard University)
- Part 2. Writing the American Book of Nature
- 4. A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic
- Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)
- 5. Tropical Empiricism: Making Medical Knowledge in Colonial Brazil
- Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
- 6. American Climate and the Civilization of Nature
- Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire)
- Part 3. Itineraries of Collection
- 7. Empiricism and Identities in the Spanish Atlantic World
- Antonio Barrera (Colgate University)
- 8. Fruitless Botany: Joseph de Jussieu's South American Odyssey
- Neil Safier (University of Pennsylvania)
- 9. Atlantic Competitions: Botany in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
- Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California)
- Part 4. Contested Powers
- 10. The Electric Machine in the American Garden
- James Delbourgo (McGill University)
- 11. Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge
- Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan)
- 12. Mesmerism in Saint Domingue:
- Occult Knowledge and Voodoo on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution
- François Regourd (University of Paris û Nanterre)
- Afterword: Science, Capitalism and the State
- Margaret C. Jacob (UCLA)