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    Nature, Environment, and Empire

    As taught in: Spring 2005

    A drawing of the Testudo Abingdonii, Galapagos Islands.

    The Testudo Abingdonii, Galapagos Islands. (Image courtesy of The Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web.)

    Instructors:

    Prof. Harriet Ritvo

    MIT Course Number:

    21H.968J / STS.415J

    Level:

    Graduate

    Course Description

    This course is an exploration of the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and concrete exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.