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Cooper, Alix

 
9780521124010: Inventing the Indigenous Paperback: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

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Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, and histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports - whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco - early modern Europeans began to take inventory of their own 'indigenous' natural worlds.

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Alix Cooper is Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University, where she teaches early modern European history and the histories of science, medicine, and the environment.

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9780521870870: Inventing the Indigenous Hardback: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

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ISBN 10:  0521870879 ISBN 13:  9780521870870
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2007
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