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Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile, Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

ISBN: 1137286059
ISBN 13: 9781137286055
Autor: Schell, P
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 297 S., 11 s/w Illustr., 297 p. 11 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN: This is a lively piece of scientific history that is filled with marvelous, memorable characters.DARWIN: The perennially popular naturalist looms large in Schell’s book.TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSION: Schell engages with the most current scholarship on the subject to show how the Europeans in Chile exemplified transnational exchange and networks of knowledge.

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Beschreibung

This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world.

Autorenporträt

Patience A. Schell Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She is the author of Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City (2003), and co-editor of The Women's Revolution in Mexico: 1910-1953 (2007) and New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico (2012).

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