Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment /

Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment /

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Botany > Colonies > Spain > History.
Scientific expeditions > Colonies > Spain > History.
Botanical illustration > Colonies > Spain > History.
Natural history > Colonies > Spain > History.

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