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Writing the New World The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire
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"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 m...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Mauro Jos Caraccioli
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (212 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781683402916, 9781683401704, 1683401980, 9781683401988, 168340291X, 9781683401957, 9781683401681, 1683401689, 1683401700, 1683401956
- OCLC
- on1158505674
- Open Access
- 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 -- Jose de Acosta and the Ends of Empire -- Epilogue: Towards a Natural History of Colonial Dominaton