Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- 38 Spanish South America
- 39 Greater Caribbean: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies
- 40 Brazil
- 41 Latin America: A Commentary
- Index
41 - Latin America: A Commentary
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- 38 Spanish South America
- 39 Greater Caribbean: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies
- 40 Brazil
- 41 Latin America: A Commentary
- Index
Summary
The early twenty-first century is an interesting period for revisiting approaches to the writing of history, including the history of science. There has been a widely shared feeling that we are at a crossroad, at the end of a knowledge regime and the beginning of another that marks a change in the ways of grasping the world. A renewed panorama of science engagement with the natural world includes a much more extended range of actors and sources. This multi-polar and multi-actor scenario emerged organically from the concerns of Atlantic history since the sixteenth century, and moved beyond them, resulting in a broader approach to science in what were formerly considered colonial outposts.
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 810 - 822Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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