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Author Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- author

Title Visible empire : botanical expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Contents Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-271) and index
Notes Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2013
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Subject Botany -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
Scientific expeditions -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
Botanical illustration -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
Natural history -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
Natural History -- history
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011008981
ISBN 9780226058559
0226058557
9781299192195
129919219X