Hugh Cagle on Nature, Disease, and ‘Assembling the Tropics’ in the Portuguese Empire

The Global History Podcast

Jun 9, 2020108:41Society & Culture

Hugh Cagle speaks about his research on the creation of the idea of the ‘tropics’, focusing on knowledge about nature, medicine, and disease in the Portuguese Empire during the late medieval and early modern periods.

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