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Patrick Browne (c.1720–90), an Irish botanist and physician in the West
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, it has been suggested that the dissemination and exchange of botanical and medical information between cultures was one of the characteristics of Early Modern globalisation. 4 The rise of Atlantic history over recent decades, although its intellectual lineage is arguably to be traced at least as far back as the post-war period and the Cold War, has enabled new readings of intersecting histories. Applied as a framework of analysis to topics as diverse as the history of sexualities, the family and indigenous Americans