Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Botany > Spain > Colonies > History.
Scientific expeditions > Spain > Colonies > History.
Botanical illustration > Spain > Colonies > History.
Natural history > Spain > Colonies > History.
Physical Description:xii, 286 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire
  • A botanical reconquista
  • Natural history and visual epistemology
  • Painting as exploration
  • Economic botany and the limits of the visual
  • Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color
  • Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.