Urban Science in 18th-Century Mexico City

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Chapter 15 Urban Science in 18th-Century Mexico City

In: A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821

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Pages:: 353–374

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335578_017

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This essay examines the ways in which science and the city shaped each other in the context of the era of the Bourbon Reforms, between the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 and the beginning of the War of Independence in 1810. Characterized by imperial attempts to impose a more efficient political control and economic exploitation of the colonies in the New World, this period saw the formation of a comprehensive agenda for the study of nature, carried out through the deployment of scientific expeditions, the foundation of new institutions for learning, and the promotion of novel spaces for the production and exchange of natural knowledge. Though they had their roots in metropolitan ambitions and in the sciences of the Enlightenment, the ways these developments played out in Mexico City reveal deeply local configurations of political and intellectual interests, where natural and urban orders produced each other as part of the same historical process.

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A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821

Series: Brill's Companions to the Americas, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004335578

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Aug 2021

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