Review: Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2007)

Authors

Andre Wakefield, Pitzer CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Program

History (Pitzer)

Publication Date

12-2007

Keywords

Traditional medicine, Natural history, Europe - History

Abstract

Reviewed work: Alix Cooper. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. xi + 218 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $75 (cloth).

Comments

Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/irw,245.

Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the History of Science Society: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/isis.html.

Article found at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/529297

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© 2007 University of Chicago Press

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DOI

10.1086/529297

Recommended Citation

Andrew Wakefield. Review of Cooper, Alix, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Isis 98.4 (December 2007): 833-834. DOI: 10.1086/529297