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How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Description for How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Paperback. In the mid-18th century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new and that it had recently emerged from the water. This text looks at the debate surrounding the geological history of the New World, and the effect on historiographical concepts. Series: Cultural Sitings. Num Pages: 488 pages, 54 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.

In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new—that it had recently emerged from the waters—and that dangerous miasmas had caused all organic life on the continents to degenerate. In the “dispute of the New World” many historians, naturalists, and moral philosophers from Europe and the Americas (including Thomas Jefferson) sought either to confirm or refute Buffon’s views. This book maintains that the “dispute” was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the continent and its peoples?

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Sitings
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804746939
SKU
V9780804746939
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99-50

About Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY-Buffalo.

Reviews for How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
"In view of the breakthrough represented by the achievements of this book, strikingly heterodox and impressively persuasive interpretations of the 'dispute of the New World,' it is of cardinal importance in several fields of history: Latin America, the Spanish monarchy, Enlightenment, historiography, and New World cultural encounters."—Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Oxford University "Refreshes our understanding of the colonial past and of the ... Read more

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