| Description |
1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- On the Design -- Part I Manipulated -- Chapter 1 Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in Mesoamerica -- Chapter 2 Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the Beast -- Chapter 3 Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Control of Water -- Chapter 4 Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance Italy -- Part II Felt -- Chapter 5 Squid: Natural History as Food History, c. 1730-1860 |
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Chapter 6 Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences -- Chapter 7 Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser Antilles -- Chapter 8 Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet Nectar -- Part III Preserved -- Chapter 9 Leaf: The Twofold Materiality of Early Modern Herbals -- Chapter 10 Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place -- Chapter 11 Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara's Lost Collection -- Chapter 12 Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of Gauss -- Epilogue: Nature's Narratives -- Afterword: The Disorder of Things: A Virus Dispatch -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Nature and civilization.
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Natural history -- History
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Natural history
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Nature and civilization
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Toledano, Anna
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Yıldırım, Duygu
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| ISBN |
9781000872989 |
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100087298X |
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