Inventing The Indigenous: Local Knowledge And Natural History In Early Modern Europe,New Dempsey Like Serenity

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Inventing The Indigenous: Local Knowledge And Natural History In Early Modern Europe,New Dempsey Like SerenityIn The Wake Of Expanding Commercial Voyages, Many People In Early Modern Europe Became Curious About The Plants And Minerals Around Them And Began To Compile Catalogs Of Them. Drawing On Cultural, Social And Environmental History, As Well As The Histories Of Science And Medicine, This Book Argues That, Amidst A Growing Reaction Against Exotic Imports Whether Medieval Spices Like Cinnamon Or New American Arrivals Like Chocolate And Tobacco Learned