Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Studies in comparative world history |
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Studies in comparative world history.
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Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Maps; Acknowledgments; A Note on Spelling and Translation; List of Abbreviations; 1 Reading between the Lines; The Death of Dr. Vogel; Empires and Their Tropics; Cultures of Inquiry and the Location of Expertise; On Method and Terminology; Part I The Coast of Africa, 1450-1550; 2 Dead Reckonings; Beyond the Senegal; Points of Orientation; Hippocratic Pathologies; Fevers and Febrifuges in the Early Atlantic |
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Cosmographic Inscriptions and Intertropical PossibilitiesPart II The Indian Ocean World, 1500-1600; 3 Itineraries and Inventories; No Bells to Honor the Dead; Fluvial Disarray, Medical Emergency; Partial Perspectives; Cartographies of Natural History; Epistemologies of the Pepper Trade; 4 Drug Traffic; Lost in Translation; Language, Novelty, and Global Order; Empiricism by the Book; Global Trade and the Limits of Experience; The Politics of Depiction; 5 Facts and Fictions; A Temple on the Mainland; Rumor Has It; Agnotology and a Subversive Leaf; India House; Where the Truth Lies |
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Part III The Portuguese Atlantic, 1550-17006 Moral Hazards; The Ambivalence of Wonder; Disease and Dissent; Company Science; Shamanism; Patterns of Inquiry; 7 Split Decisions; The View from Lisbon; Fever and an Atlantic Epidemiology; Geographies of Medical Authority; Cosmopolitanism, Native Secrets, and the Planter-Naturalist; Atlantic Itineraries, Imperial Transformations; 8 Fault Lines; The Accidental Naturalist; Coconut Palms and Global Measures; Fever, Print Culture, and Reform; Intertropical Contagion; Assembling the Tropics; 9 Epilogue |
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Alchemy, Transplantations, and the Language of EmpireRelocating Expertise in the Early Modern World; Bibliography; Archives and Collections; Brazil; France; India; Portugal; United Kingdom; Printed Contemporary Sources (including early modern books of medicine and natural history); Modern Sources; Index |
Summary |
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2018) |
Subject |
Tropical medicine -- History
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Public health -- Portugal -- Colonies
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Science -- Portugal -- History
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Tropical Medicine -- history
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Colonialism -- history
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Public Health Practice -- history
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Science -- history
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History, 15th Century
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History, 16th Century
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History, 17th Century
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Medicine
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Public health -- Portuguese colonies
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Science
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Tropical medicine
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SUBJECT |
Portugal |
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Portugal
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781108195300 |
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110819530X |
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9781108164856 |
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1108164854 |
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