{"product_id":"how-to-write-the-history-of-the-new-world-9780804746939","title":"How to Write the History of the New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-18th century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new and that it had recently emerged from the water. This text looks at the debate surrounding the geological history of the New World, and the effect on historiographical concepts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In view of the breakthrough represented by the achievements of this book, strikingly heterodox and impressively persuasive interpretations of the 'dispute of the New World,' it is of cardinal importance in several fields of history: Latin America, the Spanish monarchy, Enlightenment, historiography, and New World cultural encounters.\"—Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Oxford University\u003cbr\u003e\"Refreshes our understanding of the colonial past and of the origins of the independence movements in the New World. A masterpiece of scholarly ingenuity.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e (Books of the Year)\u003cbr\u003e\"The year's best monograph: a startling excavation in Latin America's mental pre-history.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A model of scholarship. . . . Explains how Latin America began to form, before independence, in colonial minds. The author leads the reader into beguiling labyrinths: Boturini's lost library, Palenque's ruins, Enlightenment rivalries.\"—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an extraordinarily ambitious and illuminating book on the search for new historical narratives in eighteenth-century New Spain. It is a remarkable journey of discovery, a veritable history of historiography for the late colonial period.\"—William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\"A profound, thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, seminal text about the nuances of history and its perception over 200 years ago, \u003ci\u003eHow to Write the History of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e is very highly recommended reading for students of western hemispheric history and a core addition to academic reference collections.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Bookwatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Canizares-Esguerra's study skillfully explains the epistemological origins of the dispute of the New World and rescues a vibrant Spanish-American intellectual world from undeserved obscurity. General collections and advanced undergraduates and above.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a work of prodigious learning, with potentially far-reaching implications for the intellectual history of the early modern Atlantic world. It creatively adapts recent themes in the histiography of early modern science to offer a new approach to the 'dispute of the New World.'\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Canizares-Esguerra proves a provocative model to inspire future Atlantic intellectual histories, in which both Northern and Southern metropolitans and colonials (engaging, also, the documents and artifacts of native peoples) think and write not in provincial isolation, but in complex, trans-oceanic dialogue.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There can be no doubt about the tremendous achievements of this book . . . .In an account that can only be described as magisterial for its impressive command of an enormous archive, the erudition of its philosophical scholarship, and the tour-de-force of its scope, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra’s book will be indispensable in our quest for a more global and comprehensive understanding of New World historiography, ‘the Enlightenment,’ and the making of modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.”—\u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quartlery\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations  Introduction  1. Towards a new art of reading and new historical interpretations  2. Changing european interpretations of the reliability of indigenous sources  3. Historiography and patriotism in Spain  4. The making of a 'patriontic epistemology'  5. Whose enlightenment was it anyway?  Conclusion  Notes  Bibliography  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405554131287,"sku":"9780804746939","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804746939.jpg?v=1730492812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-to-write-the-history-of-the-new-world-9780804746939","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}