Author: Editorial Destino
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ISBN: 9788423308637
Category :
Languages : es
Pages :
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Historia natural Destino
Author: Editorial Destino
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ISBN: 9788423308637
Category :
Languages : es
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ISBN: 9788423308637
Category :
Languages : es
Pages :
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Historia Natural
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Languages : es
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Historia natural
Author: Carl Owen Dunbar
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Languages : es
Pages : 392
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Languages : es
Pages : 392
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Visible Empire
Author: Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226058530
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226058530
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.
Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural "Felipe Poey"
Author: Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural "Felipe Poey."
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.)
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004252584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1119
Book Description
This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004252584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1119
Book Description
This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.
Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800
Author: Susanne SchlĂĽnder
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110733366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge about nature circulating in, and about, colonial and postcolonial South America. They argue that the production of knowledge about the American natural space widened the power gap between the Europeans colonizers and the local population. This gap, therefore, rests on what we call 'asymmetric ecologies': Eurocentric epistemic orders excluded forms of indigenous, mestizo, and Creole knowledge about nature. By looking at literary as well as non-literary sources, such as natural histories, travel narratives, encyclopaedias or medical writing, the essays in this volume trace the origins of new theoretical paradigms (ecocriticism, biopolitics, transarea studies, etc.), and examine the regional cultural, identity, and epistemic conflicts that undercut the Eurocentric narrative of enlightened modernity.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110733366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge about nature circulating in, and about, colonial and postcolonial South America. They argue that the production of knowledge about the American natural space widened the power gap between the Europeans colonizers and the local population. This gap, therefore, rests on what we call 'asymmetric ecologies': Eurocentric epistemic orders excluded forms of indigenous, mestizo, and Creole knowledge about nature. By looking at literary as well as non-literary sources, such as natural histories, travel narratives, encyclopaedias or medical writing, the essays in this volume trace the origins of new theoretical paradigms (ecocriticism, biopolitics, transarea studies, etc.), and examine the regional cultural, identity, and epistemic conflicts that undercut the Eurocentric narrative of enlightened modernity.
Historia natural Destino
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788423308125
Category : Botany
Languages : es
Pages : 401
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788423308125
Category : Botany
Languages : es
Pages : 401
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Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: Deciduous forests
Author: Josep Maria Camarasa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Biosphere features comprehensive coverage of the earth's greatest ecosystems, their characteristics and their operations. The Encyclopedia explains how these ecosystems have been transformed by human activity, while presenting the main species inhabiting each region. The text in each volume is clearly organized into four distinct sections covering the ecosystem's environmental factors, plants and animal ecology, human influences and biosphere reserves. Eleven fully-illustrated, 4-color volumes present in a contemporary, dynamic manner, the earth's principal ecosystems and the better known species of flora and fauna.
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Category : Biosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Biosphere features comprehensive coverage of the earth's greatest ecosystems, their characteristics and their operations. The Encyclopedia explains how these ecosystems have been transformed by human activity, while presenting the main species inhabiting each region. The text in each volume is clearly organized into four distinct sections covering the ecosystem's environmental factors, plants and animal ecology, human influences and biosphere reserves. Eleven fully-illustrated, 4-color volumes present in a contemporary, dynamic manner, the earth's principal ecosystems and the better known species of flora and fauna.
Boletim
Author: Sociedade Brasileira de Geografia
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
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