This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
The Testudo Abingdonii, Galapagos Islands. (Image courtesy of The Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web.)
Prof. Harriet Ritvo
21H.968J / STS.415J
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.