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Asymmetric ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800

This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge abo...

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Other Authors: Schlünder, Susanne (Editor) , Carrasco Monsalve, Rolando (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter [2022]
Series:Culture & conflict volume 21
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9783110733211
Subjects:
1700-1899
Europe
South America
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte 1700-1850
Wissensproduktion
Macht
Kolonialismus
Natur
Mensch
Südamerika
Europa
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Author Notes:edited by Rolando Carrasco M. and Susanne Schlünder
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800: Introduction
  • I Epistemic Asymmetries
  • Humboldt and Epistemological Colonialism: Alexandra Wulf’s The Invention of Nature
  • Climate, Man, and Culture in Eighteenth- Century Spain: From Feijoo (1728) to Masdeu (1783)
  • Andrés Cavo Franco’s Historia de México (1797): Hydrology, Regeneration, and the Superiority of Nature
  • Narrative, Writing about “Indians,” and Creole Epistemes in the Historias Naturales by Three Jesuits Banished from America (1767)
  • II Asymmetric Identities
  • Race and Reform in Late Colonial Santo Domingo
  • The Asymmetries of American Ingenium: Echoes of the Eighteenth-Century Debate on Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo
  • III Asymmetries in Governmentality and Economy
  • Between Agriculture and Culture: The Role of Nature in Jovellanos’s Memoria para el arreglo de la policía de los espectáculos y diversiones públicas and Informe de Ley Agraria
  • Andean Metallic Abundance in Republican Times: Mariano de Rivero and his Civic Endeavor
  • The Spanish Enlightenment and the Comprehension of the New World: Botany, Medicine, and the Search for New Remedies for the Old Empire
  • IV Asymmetric Taxonomies
  • The New World of Noah’s Ark
  • Hierarchy and Continuity: The Order of the Natural World in Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man and Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature
  • V Asymmetries in Human-Environment Relations
  • Lima 1746: Configurations of Catastrophe and Asymmetric Ecologies
  • Island Texts and Archipelagic Writing: Alexander von Humboldt’s Isle de Cube: Antilles en général
  • Transatlantic Approaches to Nature: Humboldt and his Environmental Concerns
  • List of Contributors
  • Name Index

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