Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Building Global Perspectives in History of Science: The Era from 1750 to 1850 - Patrick Manning
Part I. Exchanges among Ways of Knowing
Chapter 1. Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors: Spain’s Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World - Matthew James Crawford
Chapter 2. Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast: Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722–1900 - Eleonora Rohland
Chapter 3. The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Bird-Eating Tarantula: Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge - Kay Etheridge
Part II. Evolution of the Linnaean Vision
Chapter 4. Linnaeus’s Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729–1756 - Kenneth Nyberg
Chapter 5. Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge: Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History - Hanna Hodacs
Chapter 6. How Eighteenth-Century “Travelers in Trade” Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems - Göran Rydén
Part III. Debates on Description and Taxonomy
Chapter 7. The Slow Science of Swift Nature: Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain - Iris Montero Sobrevilla
Chapter 8. Félix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay: Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784–1802 - Marcelo Fabián Figueroa
Chapter 9. Los Pichiciegos: Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century - Irina Podgorny
Part IV. Logistics, Management, and Planning
Chapter 10. Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar: Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790–1880 - Leida Fernández-Prieto
Chapter 11. “Squares of Tropic Summer”: The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770–1910 - Stuart McCook
Chapter 12. Stamping Empire: Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India - Devyani Gupta
Part V. Labor and Economics in History of Science
Chapter 13. The Great Data Divergence: Global History of Science within Global Economic History - Jessica Ratcliff
Chapter 14. Toward a Global Labor History of Science - Daniel Rood
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index