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Writing the new world : the politics of natural history in the early Spanish Empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caraccioli, Mauro José (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Natural history > Political aspects > Latin America.
Political science > Latin America.
Philosophy > Latin America.
Latin America > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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