Description
Book SynopsisA masterful examination of how Fernández de Oviedo’s General and Natural History of the Indies created a new model for writing history that reflected the vastness of the New World and Spain’s colonial enterprise there.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New World, New History and the Writing of America
- 1. Between Two Worlds: The Life and Writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
- 2. A Reader's Guide to a New World History
- 3. The Historian as Actor and Autobiographer: Tierra Firme 1514
- 4. Eyewitness to America's Wonders: Illustrating a Natural History of the Indies
- 5. Amazon Women and New World Realities: Documenting an Expanding World
- 6. Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico: Truth and Multiple Testimonies
- 7. Native Americans in Oviedo's History
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- A. Chronology of Fernández de Oviedo's Life and Works
- B. Map of Hispaniola and Tierra Firme
- C. Translations of Passages from Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias
- 1. Prologue, Part I, Book 1
- 2. Book 29, Chapter 6 (Tierra Firme)
- 3. Book 7, Chapter 16 (The Pineapple)
- 4. Book 6, Chapter 33 (Amazon Women)
- 5. Book 33, Chapter 54 (Interview with Juan Cano)
- 6. Book 29, Chapter 26 (Natives of Tierra Firme)
- D. Table. Historia general y natural Manuscript Locations and Illustrations/Woodcuts
- E. Illustrations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
