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

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

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge

Paperback

Series: Cultural Sitings

HistoriographySouth American History

ISBN10: 0804746931
ISBN13: 9780804746939
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Apr 16 2002
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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