Article ID: CBB001321224

Between the National and the Universal: Natural History Networks in Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2013)

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Duarte, Regina Horta (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 104
Pages: 777--787


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of the focus section, “Global Currents in National Histories of Science: The “Global Turn” and the History of Science in Latin America”
Language: English

This essay examines contemporary Latin American historical writing about natural history from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Natural history is a network science, woven out of connections and communications between diverse people and centers of scholarship, all against a backdrop of complex political and economic changes. Latin American naturalists navigated a tension between promoting national science and participating in universal science. These tensions between the national and the universal have also been reflected in historical writing on Latin America. Since the 1980s, narratives that recognize Latin Americans' active role have become more notable within the renewal of the history of Latin American science. However, the nationalist slant of these approaches has kept Latin American historiography on the margins. The networked nature of natural history and Latin America's active role in it afford an opportunity to end the historiographic isolation of Latin America and situate it within world history.

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Authors & Contributors
Sandvik, Pål Thonstad
Gil Viry
Espen Storli
Doyle-Raso, John
Andreas R. D. Sanders
Sartori, Sergio
Concepts
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Science and economics
Science and politics
Global history
Historiography
Transmission of ideas
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
Modern
Places
Latin America
Japan
Europe
South Korea
Madrid (Spain)
Uganda
Institutions
Convention du mètre (1875)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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