Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Building Global Perspectives in History of Science: The Era from 1750 to 1850 Patrick Manning 1
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 21
Chapter 2 Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast: Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722-1900 Eleonora Rohland 38
Chapter 3 The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian's Bird-Eating Tarantula: Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge Kay Etheridge 54
Part II Evolution of the Linnaean Vision
Chapter 4 Linnaeus's Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729-1756 Kenneth Nyberg 73
Chapter 5 Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge: Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History Hanna Hodacs 90
Chapter 6 How Eighteenth-Century "Travelers in Trade" Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems Göran Rydén 105
Part III Debates On Description and Taxonomy
Chapter 7 The Slow Science of Swift Nature; Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain Iris Montero Sobrevilla 127
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 147
Chapter 9 Los Pichiciegos; Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century Irina Podgomy 163
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 181
Chapter 11 "Squares of Tropic Summer" The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770-1910 Stuart McCook 199
Chapter 12 Stamping Empire: Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India Devyani Gupta 216
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 237
Chapter 14 Toward a Global Labor History of Science Daniel Rood 255
Notes 275
Bibliography 345
List of Contributors 387
Index 393
