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Rebellious Nuns
Nuns are hardly associated with rebellion and turmoil. However, convents have often been the scenes of conflict and the author has discovered documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that destroyed a convent in Mexico. Chowning highlights the complicated dynamics of having committed your life to God and community.
New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestock. The life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with US, European, Russian, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese contexts. The book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting ...
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional ...
Uncommon Sense
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Modernizing Madness
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Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds
While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far...
Wissensräume im Wandel
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Bedeutung regionaler, nationaler und globaler Räume für die Genese einer agrarwissenschaftlichen Tabakforschung während der Sattelzeit. Seit den Unabhängigkeitskriegen in Nordamerika und der napoleonischen Zeit expandierte in Europa der Tabakanbau. Im Fokus des Buches stehen Agrarexperten aus dem deutsch-französischen Kontext, die landwirtschaftliches Reformwissen auf die Anforderungen der Tabakpflanze übertrugen. Während Historikerinnen und Historiker für den untersuchten Zeitraum vor allem die Bedeutung der Nationalisierung der Wissenschaften betonen, verdeutlicht diese Studie insbesondere die Prägekraft regionaler, grenzübergreifender Wissen...
