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A 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

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292726123, 978-0292726123
      ISBN10: 0292726120

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A 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

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