Matthew James Crawford

The Andean Wonder Drug (eBook, ePUB)

Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark to demonstrate how the imperial politics of knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic ultimately undermined efforts to transform European science into a tool of empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981398
• Artikelnr.: 45985798

Autorenporträt

Matthew James Crawford is associate professor in the Department of History at Kent State University and author of The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 16301800.