Assembling the Tropics

Assembling the Tropics
Author: Hugh Cagle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107196639


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This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.