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Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
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Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.
ISBN
9780226058535 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226058530 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 286 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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