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The Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World
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The Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1
Introduction: Competing Scientific Cultures and the Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World
Helge Wendt
2
Making Natural History in New Spain, 1525–1590
José Pardo-Tomás
3
Transfer of Moral Knowledge in Early Colonial Latin America
Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
4
Issues of Best Historiographical Practice: Garcia da Orta’s
Colóquios dos simples e drogas e cousas medicinais da India
(Goa, 1563) and Their Conflicting Interpretation
Sonja Brentjes
5
Transferring Natural Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain from Franciscan Sources: Motolinía’s
Historia de los Indios de la Nueva España
(1541–1569)
Emma Sallent Del Colombo
6
Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from Sixteenth to Eighteenth-Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts
Timothy D. Walker
7
Women’s Medicine in the
Cuatro Libros de la Naturaleza
of Francisco Ximénez (1615): Interchanges and Displacements
Angélica Morales Sarabia
8
Sheets of Paper, Tobacco Leaves: The Circulation of Knowledge About New World Plants Through Printed Books (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
Mauricio Sánchez Menchero
9
Underground Knowledge: Mining, Mapping and Law in Eighteenth-Century Nueva España
Nuria Valverde Pérez
10
Coal Mining in Cuba: Knowledge Formation in a Transcolonial Perspective
Helge Wendt
11
Epilogue: The Iberian Way into the Anthropocene
Helge Wendt