Cagle, Hugh. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700. Cambridge UP, 2018

Authors

  • Josiah Blackmore Harvard University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v4i1.309

Keywords:

History of Science, Portuguese Empire, Tropical Medicine

Abstract

Assembling the Tropics studies the creation of the idea of the "tropics" as a coherent global region in early modern Portuguese empire, using writings on fever, medicine, natural history, plants and drugs, and disease as the basis of analysis.

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Published

2019-06-18

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019): Special Dossier on Transnational and Counternational Queer Agencies in Lusophone Cultures

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Book Reviews

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