Vol. 15 • n. 3 • July/Sept. 2008

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GUEST EDITOR`S NOTE

ANALYSIS
Portable antiquities: transportation, ruins, and communications in nineteenth-century archeology
Irina Podgorny
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Field science in the Railroad Era: the tools of knowledge empire in the American West, 1869-1916
Jeremy Vetter
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‘Scenes from deep Times’: bones, travels, and memories in the cultures of nature in Brazil
Maria Margaret Lopes
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Pathways, science, and the State in Peru, 1850-1930
Carlos Contreras, Marcos Cueto
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The Argentina state railroad and its contribution to science
Elena Salerno
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Transportation networks and means in the development of scientific expeditions in Argentina (1850-1910)
Máximo E. Farro
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Local species, the market, and transportation in embryological research: the study of polyembryony in armadillos in the early twentieth century
Susana V. García
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Railroads, disease, and tropical medicine in Brazil under the First Republic
Jaime Larry Benchimol, André Felipe Cândido da Silva
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Trailblazers of science in the São Paulo territory: exploratory expeditions and the settlement of the São Paulo ‘sertão’ at the turn of the twentieth century
Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa
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Telegraphs and an inventory of the territory of Brazil: the scientific work of the Rondon Commission (1907-1915)
Dominichi Miranda de Sá, Magali Romero Sá, Nísia Trindade Lima
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Means of communication and the construction of territory in Latin America
Wolfgang Schäffner
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Engineering and the State: the national road network and public works in Argentina, 1930-1943
Anahi Ballent
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IMAGES
Notes on an expedition: Jean Massart and the Belgium biological mission to Brazil, 1922-1923
Alda Heizer
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SOURCES
Territory and health: Antônio Pimentel’s study on the Central Plateau
Moema de Rezende Vergara
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