Download or read book Connecting Territories written by Simona Boscani Leoni and published by Emergence of Natural History. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories"--