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Assembling the Tropics studies the creation of the idea of the "tropics" as a coherent global region in early modern Portuguese empire, using writings on fever, medicine, natural history, plants and drugs, and disease as the basis of analysis.

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  • Assembling the Tropics studies the creation of the idea of the “tropics” as a coherent global region in early modern Portuguese empire, using writings on fever, medicine, natural history, plants and drugs, and disease as the basis of analysis

  • It investigates how the conjuration of the tropical and intertropical regions of the globe brings to light a complex interplay of politics, trade, cultural negotiation, religion, and learning in imperial practices, and focuses on the largely-neglected role of medicine in the propagation of empire and its associated print culture

  • Assembling the Tropics ties together many of the current research interests of Hugh Cagle, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah, who specializes in Latin American history, the history of science, and comparative colonial history. Cagle enlists his expertise in tropical medicine, Iberian science, and natural history to provide a wide-ranging yet detailed study on “important material and ideological relationships between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds” (17)

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Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700. Assembling the Tropics studies the creation of the idea of the “tropics” as a coherent global region in early modern Portuguese empire, using writings on fever, medicine, natural history, plants and drugs, and disease as the basis of analysis.

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