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Medicine, Trade and Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Medicine, Trade and Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where the author, a Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, lived for almost thirty years. It presents a vast array of medical information on various drugs, spices, plants, fruits and minerals native to India or adjoining territories. In addition, it includes information concerning indigenous methods of healing as well as a far-reaching assessment of ancient and modern authors on Asian materia medic...

The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective

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Peanuts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Peanuts

Chock-full of photos, advertisements, and peanut recipes from as early as 1847, this entertaining and enlightening volume is a testament to the culinary potential and lasting popularity of the goober pea. 24 photos.

The Globe on Paper
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Globe on Paper

How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages.

A Catalogue of the Greenlee Collection, the Newberry Library, Chicago
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 768

A Catalogue of the Greenlee Collection, the Newberry Library, Chicago

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Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations traces and investigates multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in East-West hubs. The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Chronology of Portuguese Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Chronology of Portuguese Literature

This is the first Chronology of Portuguese Literature to be published in any language. It presents a comprehensive year-by-year list of significant and representative works of literature published mainly in Portuguese from 1128 to the beginning of the current millennium. As a reference tool, it displays the continuity and variety of the literature of the oldest European country, and documents the development of Portuguese letters from their origins to the year 2000, while also presenting the year of birth and death of each author. This book is an ideal resource for students and academics of Portuguese literature and Lusophone cultures.

National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1032

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Europe’s India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Europe’s India

When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.