{"product_id":"connecting-territories-exploring-people-and-nature-1700-1850-9789004412460","title":"Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories.    Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Gänger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  List of Figures and Tables  List of Contributors    1 Introduction: From Switzerland to the Indies   Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner and Meike Knittel    part 1: Naturalists’ Methods  2 Between the Americas and Europe: Mapping Territories through Questionnaires, 16th–18th Centuries   Simona Boscani Leoni    3 (Re-)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705)   Francesco Luzzini    4 Flora Near and Far: Accumulating Knowledge on Plants in Eighteenth-Century Zurich   Meike Knittel    5 The Secrets of Indians: Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas   Stefanie Gänger    part 2: Authorities’ and Societies’ Strategies  6 Change and Continuity: The Bureaucracy of Knowledge in  South America   Irina Podgorny    7 Questionnaires, Parish Registers and Prize Competitions: The Zurich Physical Society’s Sources and Methods for Surveying the Territory   Sarah Baumgartner    8 Social Anthropology avant la lettre: The Economic Enlightenment Perspective on Traditional Uses of Wetlands   Martin Stuber    part 3: Defining Territories  9 Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, seen through Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of Nature   Jon Mathieu    10 Alpine Landscapes of Health: The Swiss Whey Cure and Therapeutic Tourism between 1750 and 1870   Barbara Orland    11 Creation of “Scientific” Knowledge: The Asiatick Society and Exploration of the Himalaya, 1784–1850   Chetan Singh    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210784858455,"sku":"9789004412460","price":114.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/connecting-territories-exploring-people-and-nature-1700-1850-9789004412460","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}