Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, and histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports - whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco - early modern Europeans began to take inventory of their own 'indigenous' natural worlds.

• | Author: Alix Cooper
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 19, 2007
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780521870870
• | ISBN-10: 0521870879