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Nature, Environment, and Empire

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21H.968J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2010English
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This class examines the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and exploration and exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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