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

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

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

Cultural Sitings

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

488 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 degene...

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