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Author Caraccioli, Mauro José, author.

Title Writing the new world : the politics of natural history in the early Spanish Empire / Mauro José Caraccioli.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 194 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Print version record.
Subject Natural history -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
Political science -- Latin America.
Philosophy -- Latin America.
Latin America -- History.
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Caraccioli, Mauro José. Writing the new world. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021] 9781683401681 (DLC) 2020023368 (OCoLC)1155316120
ISBN 9781683401988 (electronic book)
1683401980 (electronic book)
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