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100 1 $aCooper, Alix,$d1966-
245 10 $aInventing the indigenous :$blocal knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe /$cAlix Cooper.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$cc2007.
300 $axiii, 218 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogs of them. Drawing on cultural, social, and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports--whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco--learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own "indigenous" natural worlds. In response, compilers of local inventories created numerous ways of itemizing nature, from local floras and regional mineralogies to efforts to write the natural histories of entire territories. Tracing the fate of such efforts, the book provides insight into the historical trajectory of such key concepts as indigeneity and local knowledge."--P. [4] of cover.
505 0 $aHome and the world : debating indigenous nature -- Field and garden : the making of the local flora -- From rocks to riches : the quest for natural wealth -- The nature of the territory -- Problems of local knowledge.
650 0 $aTraditional medicine$zEurope.
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651 0 $aEurope$xHistory$y1492-
650 12 $aMedicine, Traditional$xhistory$zEurope.
650 22 $aHistory, Early Modern 1451-1600$zEurope.
650 22 $aHistory, Modern 1601-$zEurope.
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