Book ID: CBB246418898

Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (2021)

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Boscani Leoni, Simona (Editor)
Baumgartner, Sarah (Editor)
Meike Knittel (Editor)


Brill
Volume: 5


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: x, 268 pp.
Language: English

The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories.

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Review Patrick Anthony (2022) Review of "Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850". Archives of Natural History (pp. 426-427). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Stefanie Gänger (2021) The Secrets of Indians: Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 101-123). unapi

Chapter Francesco Luzzini (2021) (Re-)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705). In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 54-74). unapi

Chapter Chetan Singh (2021) Creation of “Scientific” Knowledge: The Asiatick Society and Exploration of the Himalaya, 1784–1850. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 242-261). unapi

Chapter Simona Boscani Leoni (2021) Between the Americas and Europe: Mapping Territories through Questionnaires, 16th–18th Centuries. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 23-53). unapi

Chapter Meike Knittel (2021) Flora Near and Far: Accumulating Knowledge on Plants in Eighteenth-Century Zurich. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 75-100). unapi

Chapter Jon Mathieu (2021) Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, Seen through Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of Nature. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 189-209). unapi

Chapter Barbara Orland (2021) Alpine Landscapes of Health: The Swiss Whey Cure and Therapeutic Tourism between 1750 and 1870. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 210-241). unapi

Chapter Martin Stuber (2021) Social Anthropology avant la lettre: The Economic Enlightenment Perspective on Traditional Uses of Wetlands. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 170-185). unapi

Chapter Sarah Baumgartner (2021) Questionnaires, Parish Registers and Prize Competitions: The Zurich Physical Society’s Sources and Methods for Surveying the Territory. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 149-169). unapi

Chapter Simona Boscani Leoni; Sarah Baumgartner; Meike Knittel (2021) Introduction: From Switzerland to the Indies. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 1-19). unapi

Chapter Irina Podgorny (2021) Change and Continuity: The Bureaucracy of Knowledge in South America. In: Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 (pp. 127-148). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Luzzini, Francesco
Meike Knittel
Baumgartner, Sarah
Boscani Leoni, Simona
Chiara Santucci Ganzert
Dai Prà, Elena
Concepts
Natural history
Field notes
Travel; exploration
Explorers and Exploration
Medicine
Geography
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Latin America
Switzerland
Tuscany (Italy)
Apennines
Institutions
University of Padua
East India Company (English)
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