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Author:
Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-
Title:
Visible empire : botanical expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xii, 286 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Botany--History.--Spain--History.
Scientific expeditions--History.--Spain--History.
Botanical illustration--History.--Spain--History.
Natural history--History.--Spain--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index.
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.
ISBN:
0226058530 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226058535 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)706965700
LCCN:
2011008981
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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