Assembling the tropics : science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700 /
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 account...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies in comparative world history.
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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.