124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Science and Empire in the Spanish Atlantic: Natural History Investigations in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire

Science and Empire in the Spanish Atlantic: Natural History Investigations in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire

AHA Session 9

Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Elizabeth Ballroom A (Hyatt)

Chair:

Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas at Austin

Papers:

Natural History and the Salvation of the Spanish Empire in the Age of Enlightenment
Paula S. De Vos, San Diego State University

The Co-Production of Nature and Empire: Botanical Debate and the “Two Paths” for Exploiting Quina in the Spanish Atlantic, 1792–1801
Matthew J. Crawford, University of California, San Diego

States of Geography: Alzate's Maps Between New Spain and European Cabinets
Miruna Achim, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa

The Science of Empire: Local Botany in Late Bourbon Peru
Emily Berquist, California State University, Long Beach

Comment:

Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas at Austin

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