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  title info:
    title: Assembling the tropics
    sub title: science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700
  name:
    name part: Cagle, Hugh
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features, prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional accounts of the Scientific Revolution. The history of "the tropics" is the story of science in Europe's first global empire. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, Portugal established colonies from sub-Saharan Africa to southeast Asia and South America, enabling the earliest comparisons of nature and disease across the tropical world. Assembling the Tropics shows how the proliferation of colonial approaches to medicine and natural history led to the assemblage of "the tropics" as a single, coherent and internally consistent global region. This is a story about how places acquire medical meaning, about how nature and disease become objects of scientific inquiry and about what is at stake when that happens.
  table of contents: 1. Reading between the Lines -- Part I. The Coast of Africa, 1450-1550: 2. Dead Reckonings -- Part II. The Indian Ocean World, 1500-1600: 3. Itineraries and Inventories ; 4. Drug Traffic ; 5. Facts and Fictions -- Part III. The Portuguese Atlantic, 1550-1700: 6. Moral Hazards ; 7. Split Decisions ; 8. Fault Lines ; 9. Epilogue: South-South Exchanges.
  note: Hugh Cagle, University of Utah.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-342) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-po---
  subject:
    topic: Tropical medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Public health
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Portugal
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Portugal
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Tropical Medicine
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Colonialism
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Public Health Practice
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: History, 15th Century
  subject:
    topic: History, 16th Century
  subject:
    topic: History, 17th Century
  classification: RC961 .C17 2018
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in comparative world history
  identifier: 9781107196636
  identifier: 1107196639
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  identifier: 110819530X
  identifier: 9781108164856
  identifier: 2018021310
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180502
    record change date: 20200117105442.0
    record identifier: in00004082495