Matthew James Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 700322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew James Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew James |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8441-6940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
What Would Galileo Think of Ted Cruz? Reflections on Epistemic Crisis and Early Modern Scholarship
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History . By Juan Pimentel. Translated by Peter Mason
Images can be quite powerful. They can even resurrect the dead. The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium tells the story of two such images. In 1515, German artist Albrecht Dürer created the first image. It was a woodcut of a rhinoceros that had traveled from India to Portugal as a gift to King Manuel I but recently perished in a shipwreck on its way to Rome. Between 1789 and 1793, Spanish artist and taxidermist Juan Bautista Bru in collaboration with …
Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, Science, and Society
No matter how much Europeans and creoles emphasized their differences from indigenous, African, and mixed-race peoples, no one in Spanish colonial society could avoid getting sick. As a result, medicine was a crucial part of everyday life and the Spanish colonial project. In her new book, Linda Newson illuminates the experiences of a group of healers understudied in the historical scholarship on medicine in colonial Latin America: boticarios (apo…
Escaping the historiographical blackmail of modernity: The history of nature and knowledge in Tokugawa Japan
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800
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. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and distribution of this medicament by establishing a royal reserve of "fever trees" in Quito. Through this pilot project,…
Domesticating Empire: Enlightenment in Spanish America
An Empire's Extract: Chemical Manipulations of Cinchona Bark in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
In 1790, the Spanish Crown sent a "botanist-chemist" to South America to implement production of a chemical extract made from cinchona bark, a botanical medicament from the Andes used throughout the Atlantic World to treat malarial fevers. Even though the botanist-chemist's efforts to produce the extract failed, this episode offers important insight into the role of chemistry in the early modern Atlantic World. Well before the Spanish Crown tried…
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Neil Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 428 pp. 20 colour plates, 59 halftones. $45.00. ISBN-13 978-0-226-73355-5
The history of Atlantic science: Collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history
A “reasoned proposal” against “vain science”: Creole negotiations of an Atlantic medicament in the Audiencia of Quito (1776–92)
This essay discusses the 1779 report on quina by Miguel García de Cáceres, a customs official in Guayaquil, for the Visitador General to the Audiencia of Quito. Quina, a medicinal tree bark, was an important export commodity in the region which had been recognized since the mid seventeenth century by medical practitioners throughout the Atlantic world as an effective treatment for periodic fevers, one of the most prevalent ailments in the early m…
Para Desterrar Las Dudas Y Adulteraciones”: Scientific Expertise and the Attempts to Make a Better Bark for the Royal Monopoly of Quina (1751–1790)1
The history of Atlantic science: Collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history
A “reasoned proposal” against “vain science”: Creole negotiations of an Atlantic medicament in the Audiencia of Quito (1776–92)
This essay discusses the 1779 report on quina by Miguel García de Cáceres, a customs official in Guayaquil, for the Visitador General to the Audiencia of Quito. Quina, a medicinal tree bark, was an important export commodity in the region which had been recognized since the mid seventeenth century by medical practitioners throughout the Atlantic world as an effective treatment for periodic fevers, one of the most prevalent ailments in the early m…
An Empire's Extract: Chemical Manipulations of Cinchona Bark in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
In 1790, the Spanish Crown sent a "botanist-chemist" to South America to implement production of a chemical extract made from cinchona bark, a botanical medicament from the Andes used throughout the Atlantic World to treat malarial fevers. Even though the botanist-chemist's efforts to produce the extract failed, this episode offers important insight into the role of chemistry in the early modern Atlantic World. Well before the Spanish Crown tried…
Para Desterrar Las Dudas Y Adulteraciones”: Scientific Expertise and the Attempts to Make a Better Bark for the Royal Monopoly of Quina (1751–1790)1
Para Desterrar Las Dudas Y Adulteraciones”: Scientific Expertise and the Attempts to Make a Better Bark for the Royal Monopoly of Quina (1751–1790)1
The history of Atlantic science: Collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history
A “reasoned proposal” against “vain science”: Creole negotiations of an Atlantic medicament in the Audiencia of Quito (1776–92)
This essay discusses the 1779 report on quina by Miguel García de Cáceres, a customs official in Guayaquil, for the Visitador General to the Audiencia of Quito. Quina, a medicinal tree bark, was an important export commodity in the region which had been recognized since the mid seventeenth century by medical practitioners throughout the Atlantic world as an effective treatment for periodic fevers, one of the most prevalent ailments in the early m…
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Neil Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 428 pp. 20 colour plates, 59 halftones. $45.00. ISBN-13 978-0-226-73355-5
An Empire's Extract: Chemical Manipulations of Cinchona Bark in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
In 1790, the Spanish Crown sent a "botanist-chemist" to South America to implement production of a chemical extract made from cinchona bark, a botanical medicament from the Andes used throughout the Atlantic World to treat malarial fevers. Even though the botanist-chemist's efforts to produce the extract failed, this episode offers important insight into the role of chemistry in the early modern Atlantic World. Well before the Spanish Crown tried…
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800
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. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and distribution of this medicament by establishing a royal reserve of "fever trees" in Quito. Through this pilot project,…
Domesticating Empire: Enlightenment in Spanish America
Escaping the historiographical blackmail of modernity: The history of nature and knowledge in Tokugawa Japan
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
What Would Galileo Think of Ted Cruz? Reflections on Epistemic Crisis and Early Modern Scholarship
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History . By Juan Pimentel. Translated by Peter Mason
Images can be quite powerful. They can even resurrect the dead. The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium tells the story of two such images. In 1515, German artist Albrecht Dürer created the first image. It was a woodcut of a rhinoceros that had traveled from India to Portugal as a gift to King Manuel I but recently perished in a shipwreck on its way to Rome. Between 1789 and 1793, Spanish artist and taxidermist Juan Bautista Bru in collaboration with …
Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, Science, and Society
No matter how much Europeans and creoles emphasized their differences from indigenous, African, and mixed-race peoples, no one in Spanish colonial society could avoid getting sick. As a result, medicine was a crucial part of everyday life and the Spanish colonial project. In her new book, Linda Newson illuminates the experiences of a group of healers understudied in the historical scholarship on medicine in colonial Latin America: boticarios (apo…
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