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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic ...
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Cambridge Univ Pr 2018 Hardcover New 364 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018 Hard cover New. Contains: Halftones, black & white, Maps, Unspecified. Studies in Comparative World History . 22 b/w illus. 3 maps. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

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Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018 Hard cover New. 382 p. Studies in Comparative World History . Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Maps; 22 Halftones, black and white. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: CAMBRIDGE] Hardcover This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal s empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern wo.
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Cambridge Univ Pr, Date: 2018. Hardcover. New. 364 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. 2018. Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN 1107196639 9781107196636 [GB]

ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover
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Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Cambridge University Press ISBN 1107196639 9781107196636 [US]

ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press 2018-09-06, Cambridge] Hardcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.5
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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press 2018-09-06, Cambridge] Hardcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover First Edition xix 364p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy Language: English
[Cambridge, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]
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Cambridge,, Date: 2018. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp xix, 364. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering at spine. ISBN: 9781107196636 2018. ISBN 1107196639 9781107196636 [GB]

ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover First Edition xix 364p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy Language: English
[Cambridge, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]
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ISBN10: 1107196639, ISBN13: 9781107196636, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK] Hardcover First Edition Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xix, 364 pp. Inscribed by Cagle on title page. Fine in original black cloth and fine pictorial dust jacket, as new.
[Asheville, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]
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