دانلود کتاب Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds

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Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
On the Design
Part I Manipulated
Chapter 1 Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in Mesoamerica
Chapter 2 Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the Beast
Chapter 3 Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Control of Water
Chapter 4 Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance Italy
Part II Felt
Chapter 5 Squid: Natural History as Food History, c. 1730–1860
Chapter 6 Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences
Chapter 7 Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser Antilles
Chapter 8 Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet Nectar
Part III Preserved
Chapter 9 Leaf: The Twofold Materiality of Early Modern Herbals
Chapter 10 Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place
Chapter 11 Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara’s Lost Collection
Chapter 12 Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of Gauss
Epilogue: Nature’s Narratives
Afterword: The Disorder of Things: A Virus Dispatch
Index