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  title info:
    title: Visible empire
    sub title: botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
  name:
    name part: Bleichmar, Daniela
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 286 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 13,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories, the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.
  table of 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.
  note: Daniela Bleichmar.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-sp---
  subject:
    topic: Botany
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Scientific expeditions
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Botanical illustration
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Natural history
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  classification: QK21.S7 B54 2012
  classification: 581.946
  identifier: 9780226058535 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0226058530 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2011008981
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 110228
    record change date: 20151206101205.0
    record identifier: in00003456026