The Science of Useful Nature in Central America : Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108421237
ISBN-13
9781108421232
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 17th, 2020
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
552 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.60 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasSocial & cultural historyHistorical geographyHistory of science
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Following material practices and scientific exchanges through local and global networks, Sophie Brockmann demonstrates how interactions with landscape and environment played a key role in constructing ideas of patriotism and nation in Enlightenment Central America.
In this ambitious new study, Sophie Brockmann argues that interactions with landscape and environment were central to the construction of Central American identities in the Age of Enlightenment. She argues that new intellectual connections and novel ways of understanding landscapes had a transformative impact on political culture, as patriotic reformers sought to improve the region''s fortunes by applying scientific and ''useful'' knowledge gathered from local and global networks to the land. These reformers established networks that extended into the countryside and far beyond Central America''s borders. Tracing these networks and following the bureaucrats, priests, labourers, merchants and scholars within them, Brockmann shows how they made a lasting impact by defining a new place for the natural world in narratives of nation and progress.
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