Nature, Empire, and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature, Empire, and Nation write by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. This book was released on 2006. Nature, Empire, and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
Nature, Empire, and Nation
Nature, Empire, and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature, Empire, and Nation write by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. This book was released on 2006. Nature, Empire, and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
Nature's Colony
Nature's Colony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Colony write by Timothy P Barnard. This book was released on 2018-04-27. Nature's Colony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the "e;greening"e; of the nation-state, and became Singapore's first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature's colony-a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.
The Republic of Nature
The Republic of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Republic of Nature write by Mark Fiege. This book was released on 2012. The Republic of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred.
The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature
The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature write by Karl S. Hele. This book was released on 2013-09-28. The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.
