How to write the history of the New World : histories, epistemologies, and identities in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.
"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&q...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Cultural sitings.
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Main Collection
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F1412 .C25 2001 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |