A genealogy of the Quina family in America who are descendants of Desidero Quina born in Bologna, Italy 19 Oct 1777. He married Margareta Bobe on 17 Sep 1813 in Pensacola, Florida. He died in Pensacola on 17 July 1830.
"At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, European physicians, botanists, chemists, apothecaries, missionaries, and agents from imperial courts began to believe that the highest quality cinchona bark, or ...
Part One of Empire's Experts describes an imperial culture of knowledge production that pervaded imperial governance and influenced the structure and development of the quina monopoly.