IMAGE 4: Ivory Salt Cellar Base, Sierra Leone, 16th c. 1525 were commissioned and purchased from West African artisans by Iberian travelers beginning in the late fifteenth century.” Description from Hugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), p. An armillary sphere (bottom) and the coat of arms of the Portuguese House of Aviz (top) adorn an olifant made by craftsmen in Benin. Description: “Images highlighting the intertropical situation of Portugal’s empire were characteristic of Manueline architecture. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Italy License. Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena, Italy.

IMAGE 2 and COVER IMAGE: Cantino Planisphere (Carta del Cantino), ca. See the Biblioteca Virtual del Ministerio de Defensa for detailed information on the map, in Spanish. Museo Naval de Madrid - Signatura: MNM-257. Place of publication: El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz. IMAGE 1: Carta universal de Juan de la Cosa, 1500. And if you’d like to listen to more segments in this series on ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early Modern World’, click here or listen to the playlist on Spotify. If you have any thoughts, questions, or comments about this episode, or would like to pitch us an idea for a new episode, feel free to email us at or send us a message on our website’s contact form, facebook, twitter, or instagram. He is the author of Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the 2019 Leo Gershoy Award from the American Historical Association.Ībout a week and a half ago, Chase spoke with Professor Cagle over skype about his research on the creation of the idea of the ‘tropics’, focusing on knowledge about nature, medicine, and disease in the Portuguese empire during the late medieval and early modern periods. Professor Cagle’s research focuses thematically on comparative colonialism and on science and technology studies, and geographically on Latin America, especially Brazil, as well as the broader Portuguese World.

On this segment, we’d like to welcome Hugh Cagle, an Associate Professor of History and the Director of International Studies at the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. Welcome to the ninth episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in our series on ‘ Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early Modern World‘.

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