Writing the new world : the politics of natural history in the early Spanish Empire /
"In this volume, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought"--
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University of Florida Press,
2021.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Opening: Of Nature and Other Demons
- Narratives of Conquest and the Conquest of Narrative
- Oviedo, Las Casas, and the Difference That Made Nature
- The Anthropolitics of Bernardino de Sahagún
- The Imperial Renaissance of Francisco Hernández
- José de Acosta and the Ends of Empire
- Epilogue: Towards a Natural History of Colonial Dominaton