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Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850 (Emergence of Natural History 5)

by Boscani Leoni, S.; Baumgartner, S.; Knittel, M. (Eds)

Series : Emergence of Natural History
Volume: 5
Publisher : Brill
Illustrations : 13 col illus, 3 b/w illus

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Description:

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.

Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Gänger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.