LEADER 04414nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910826709303321 005 20240313150925.0 010 $a0-226-05855-7 010 $a1-299-19219-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226058559 035 $a(CKB)2550000001003071 035 $a(EBL)1128494 035 $a(OCoLC)829461019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834389 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11449203 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834389 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10980090 035 $a(PQKB)11277085 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1128494 035 $a(DE-B1597)523531 035 $a(OCoLC)828869728 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226058559 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1128494 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10664528 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL450469 035 $a(PPN)260018953 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001003071 100 $a20110228d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVisible empire $ebotanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment /$fDaniela Bleichmar 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-05853-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction. Natural History & Visual Culture in the Spanish Empire --$tChapter One. A Botanical Reconquista --$tChapter Two. Natural History & Visual Epistemology --$tChapter Three. Painting as Exploration --$tChapter Four. Economic Botany & the Limits of the Visual --$tChapter Five. Visions of Imperial Nature: Global White Space, Local Color --$tConclusion. The Empire as an Image Machine --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBetween 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked-until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes. 606 $aBotanical illustration$zSpain$xColonies$xHistory 606 $aBotany$zSpain$xColonies$xHistory 606 $aNatural history$zSpain$xColonies$xHistory 606 $aScientific expeditions$zSpain$xColonies$xHistory 610 $aempire, colonialism, hispanic, enlightenment, botany, flora, americas, caribbean, philippines, specimens, naturalists, art, visual culture, science, expedition, natural history, nature, environment, plants, flowers, native species, painting, spain, south america, central, hispaniola, cuba, puerto rico, chile, peru, hipolito ruiz, jose pavon, discovery, nonfiction. 615 0$aBotanical illustration$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aBotany$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aNatural history$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aScientific expeditions$xColonies$xHistory. 676 $a581.946 700 $aBleichmar$b Daniela$f1973-$01585909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826709303321 996 $aVisible empire$94015040 997 $aUNINA