新大陸の歴史をいかに書くか:18世紀大西洋世界における諸歴史・認識・アイデンティティ<br>How to Write the History of the New World : Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cultural Sitings)

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新大陸の歴史をいかに書くか:18世紀大西洋世界における諸歴史・認識・アイデンティティ
How to Write the History of the New World : Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cultural Sitings)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 488 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780804746939
  • DDC分類 970.03

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. Winner of Two Prizes of The American Historical Association: Prize in Atlantic History/ John Edwin Fagg Prize for Best Publication in the History of Spain and Latin America.

Full Description

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" many historians, naturalists, and moral philosophers from Europe and the Americas (including Thomas Jefferson) sought either to confirm or refute Buffon's views. This book maintains that the "dispute" was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the continent and its peoples?

The author traces the cultural processes that led early-modern intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic to question primary sources that had long been considered authoritative: Mesoamerican codices, early colonial Spanish chronicles, and travel accounts. In the process, he demonstrates how the writings of these critics led to the rise of the genre of conjectural history. The book also adds to the literature on nation formation by exploring the creation of specific identities in Spain and Spanish America by means of particular historical narratives and institutions. Finally, it demonstrates that colonial intellectuals went beyond mirroring or contesting European ideas and put forth daring and original critiques of European epistemologies that resulted in substantially new historiographical concepts.

Contents

List 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.