Sophie Brockmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4977361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Brockmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Brockmann |
| SIGNATURE | BROCKMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heritage and Environment
The process of creating archaeological heritage sites is necessarily rooted in the environments that surround them. This was particularly true for the Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá, located within a United Fruit Company banana plantation. Foreign archaeologists working at Quiriguá actively managed the surrounding landscape, shaping it for excavation work or, increasingly, to conform to a tourist aesthetic. Guatemalan scholars, tourists, an…
Caminos, puertos y la construcción del Estado guatemalteco (1821-1838)
Este artículo examina los proyectos relacionados con la construcción de caminos, ferrocarriles, puertos y canales, que se realizaron o se intentaron llevar a cabo, bajo los gobiernos federales y estatales entre 1823-1838. Se centra en el contexto guatemalteco, pero también expone argumentos más amplios sobre la importancia de la infraestructura en la formación de los Estados y las identidades nacionales después de la independencia centroamericana…
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
In this ambitious new study, Sophie Brockmann argues that interactions with landscape and environment were central to the construction of Central American identities in the Age of Enlightenment. She argues that new intellectual connections and novel ways of understanding landscapes had a transformative impact on political culture, as patriotic reformers sought to improve the region's fortunes by applying scientific and 'useful' knowledge gathered…
Science of Useful Nature in Central America
Martha Few, For All of Humanity
For All of Humanity addresses responses to epidemic disease in colonial Central America. Focusing on the typhus and smallpox epidemics that ravaged the administrative region known as the Kingdom of Guatemala in the 1790s and 1810s, Martha Few shows how an urban elite who saw themselves as propagators of enlightened humanitarianism orchestrated anti-epidemic measures, and places these specific responses within a broader story of the way the state …
Distance and documents at the Spanish empire’s periphery
Distance and documents at the Spanish empire’s periphery." Colonial Latin American Review, 26(3), pp. 411–412
Sumatran Rice and ‘Miracle’ Herbs
This paper concerns the local and global knowledge networks in which residents of colonial Central America participated. In the last few decades of Spanish rule (c. 1796–1821), members of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País dedicated themselves to bringing ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘improvement’ to the region through natural history and other ‘useful arts’. Articles published in the Economic Society’s newspaper, the Gazeta de Guatemala, show that…
Retórica, patriotismo y redes de información científica en Centroamérica, c. 1790-1810
This article explores the relationship between scientific endeavours and the rhetoric of creole patriotism in the Spanish colony in Central America, the Captaincy-General of Guatemala towards the end of the colonial period. It focuses specifically on the statements made by the patriotic newspaper Gazeta de Guatemala about the trustworthiness of expert scientific knowledge and the applicability of foreign knowledge to Guatemalan circumstances. Gua…
Sumatran Rice and ‘Miracle’ Herbs
This paper concerns the local and global knowledge networks in which residents of colonial Central America participated. In the last few decades of Spanish rule (c. 1796–1821), members of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País dedicated themselves to bringing ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘improvement’ to the region through natural history and other ‘useful arts’. Articles published in the Economic Society’s newspaper, the Gazeta de Guatemala, show that…
Retórica, patriotismo y redes de información científica en Centroamérica, c. 1790-1810
This article explores the relationship between scientific endeavours and the rhetoric of creole patriotism in the Spanish colony in Central America, the Captaincy-General of Guatemala towards the end of the colonial period. It focuses specifically on the statements made by the patriotic newspaper Gazeta de Guatemala about the trustworthiness of expert scientific knowledge and the applicability of foreign knowledge to Guatemalan circumstances. Gua…
Sumatran Rice and ‘Miracle’ Herbs
This paper concerns the local and global knowledge networks in which residents of colonial Central America participated. In the last few decades of Spanish rule (c. 1796–1821), members of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País dedicated themselves to bringing ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘improvement’ to the region through natural history and other ‘useful arts’. Articles published in the Economic Society’s newspaper, the Gazeta de Guatemala, show that…
Martha Few, For All of Humanity
For All of Humanity addresses responses to epidemic disease in colonial Central America. Focusing on the typhus and smallpox epidemics that ravaged the administrative region known as the Kingdom of Guatemala in the 1790s and 1810s, Martha Few shows how an urban elite who saw themselves as propagators of enlightened humanitarianism orchestrated anti-epidemic measures, and places these specific responses within a broader story of the way the state …
Distance and documents at the Spanish empire’s periphery
Distance and documents at the Spanish empire’s periphery." Colonial Latin American Review, 26(3), pp. 411–412
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
In this ambitious new study, Sophie Brockmann argues that interactions with landscape and environment were central to the construction of Central American identities in the Age of Enlightenment. She argues that new intellectual connections and novel ways of understanding landscapes had a transformative impact on political culture, as patriotic reformers sought to improve the region's fortunes by applying scientific and 'useful' knowledge gathered…
Science of Useful Nature in Central America
Caminos, puertos y la construcción del Estado guatemalteco (1821-1838)
Este artículo examina los proyectos relacionados con la construcción de caminos, ferrocarriles, puertos y canales, que se realizaron o se intentaron llevar a cabo, bajo los gobiernos federales y estatales entre 1823-1838. Se centra en el contexto guatemalteco, pero también expone argumentos más amplios sobre la importancia de la infraestructura en la formación de los Estados y las identidades nacionales después de la independencia centroamericana…
Heritage and Environment
The process of creating archaeological heritage sites is necessarily rooted in the environments that surround them. This was particularly true for the Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá, located within a United Fruit Company banana plantation. Foreign archaeologists working at Quiriguá actively managed the surrounding landscape, shaping it for excavation work or, increasingly, to conform to a tourist aesthetic. Guatemalan scholars, tourists, an…
Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Enlightenment (3 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)