Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

xii, 286 pages : illustrations (mostlycol.) ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index.

Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.