Author Cooper, Alix, 1966- author.

Title Inventing the indigenous : local knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe / Alix Cooper.

Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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 Monograph Collection  GR880 .C66 2009  AVAILABLE
Description 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Note Originally published: New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Home and the world : debating indigenous nature -- Field and garden : the making of the local flora -- From rocks to riches : the quest for natural wealth -- The nature of the territory -- Problems of local knowledge.
Subject(s) Traditional medicine -- Europe.
Traditional medicine -- Europe -- Sources.
Natural history -- Europe.
Natural history -- Europe -- Sources.
Ethnoscience -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- History -- 1492-
Europe.