Assembling the Tropics Image close
Assembling the Tropics by Hugh Cagle
Assembling the Tropics by Hugh Cagle
Show Hide Adult Content
Assembling the Tropics close

Non-Fiction Books:

Home  
Books  
Non-Fiction  
Humanities  
History

Assembling the Tropics

Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450–1700
Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

By:

Format:

Paperback / softback
$92.99
Available from supplier

The item is brand new and in-stock with one of our preferred suppliers. The item will ship from a Mighty Ape warehouse within the timeframe shown.

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
0 in Trolley

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Afterpay is available on orders $100 to $2000 Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

  • Around 24 Jun - 4 Jul using International Courier

Explore more Studies in Comparative World History

See all products in this series

Networks of Empire on Hardback by Kerry Ward
$187.99
Networks of Empire
by Kerry Ward ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Rethinking World History on Hardback by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
$250.99
Rethinking World History
by Marshall G.S. Hodgson ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Rethinking World History by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
$92.99
Rethinking World History
by Marshall G.S. Hodgson ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Global Gifts on Hardback
$272.99
Global Gifts
Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands by Victor Lieberman
$231.99
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China,...
by Victor Lieberman ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Global Gifts
$107.99
Global Gifts
Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Assembling the Tropics on Hardback by Hugh Cagle
$119.99
Assembling the Tropics
by Hugh Cagle ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800 by John Thornton
$77.99
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800
by John Thornton ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia by Ulbe Bosma
$107.99
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
by Ulbe Bosma ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Networks of Empire by Kerry Ward
$103.99
Networks of Empire
by Kerry Ward ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland by Victor Lieberman
$126.99
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
by Victor Lieberman ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland on Hardback by Victor Lieberman
$208.99
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
by Victor Lieberman ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Law and Colonial Cultures by Lauren Benton
$63.99
Law and Colonial Cultures
by Lauren Benton ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands on Hardback by Victor Lieberman
$372.99
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China,...
by Victor Lieberman ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800 on Hardback by John Thornton
$251.99
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800
by John Thornton ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex on Hardback by Philip D. Curtin
$215.99
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
by Philip D. Curtin ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

Description

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.

Author Biography:

Hugh Cagle is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Utah, where he is also Director of the International Studies program.
Release date Australia
December 19th, 2019
Author
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Maps; 22 Halftones, black and white
Pages
384
Dimensions
150x230x25
ISBN-13
9781316647424
Product ID
32385251

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Explore more by Hugh Cagle

See all books by this author

Assembling the Tropics on Hardback by Hugh Cagle
$119.99
Assembling the Tropics
by Hugh Cagle ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks

Recommended for you

Recommended from your browsing history

Help & options

Filed under...

Books >
Non-Fiction >
Humanities >
History
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Maths & Science >
Science: general issues >
History of science