Assembling the tropics : science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700 /
From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional account...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Studies in comparative world history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
