The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28062
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108367615
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108367615
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book shows how Enlightenment ideas about nature as well as global scientific networks influenced the cultural, economic and political life of Central America in the period 1784-1838. It is the result of ten years’ work and was funded by an AHRC doctoral research grant as well as postdoctoral grants. It is 120,000 words long and draws on sources from eleven archives in four countries, in several languages. It combines intellectual history, environmental history and the history of science in a comprehensive account of a society’s engagement with the natural world around it.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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