This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires

Internationalisation of medical knowledge, its circulation and implementation through colonial institutions have played a significant role in combating diseases

The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political la

Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge

Winner of the Dom João de Castro Prize for Portuguese History This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, a