Inventing the Indigenous

Alix (State University of New York, Stony Brook) Cooper

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, and histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports - whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco - early modern Europeans began to take inventory of their own 'indigenous' natural worlds.

ISBN-13
9780521870870
ISBN-10
0521870879
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-03-19
Pages
234
Dimensions
161x236x21
Weight
500