The perfection of nature animals, breeding, and race in the Renaissance
"The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but, as Mackenzie Cooley uncovers in this timely book, there is a dark parallel to this fêted era. Those same men and women who were offering profound advancements in our understanding of the h...
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The University of Chicago Press
2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Knowing and controlling animal generation. Breeders as philosophers ; Razza-making and branding
- A divergence in breeding. Razza-making at a European court ; Corn, seed, blood in Mesoamerica
- A brave new natural world. Canine Mestizaje ; Camelids and Christian nature
- Difference in European thought. Thinking through conversion, lineage, and population: José de Acosta ; Seeing inside from the outside: Giovanni Battista della Porta
- Epilogue