Home » Writing the New World
Product Image

Writing the New World

Mauro José Caraccioli
€26.50
Quantity:
Ships in 10-20 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Mauro Jose Caraccioli
Author_Mauro Jose Caraccioli
Bartolome de las Casas
Bernardino de Sahagun
Category=DSB
Category=DSRC
Category=JPB
Category=NHK
Category=WN
Colonial Latin American Literature
Colonial Society
Empire and Nature
Environmental Political Thought
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Francisco Hernandez
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
Hispanic Enlightenment
Indigenous Peoples
Jose de Acosta
Latin American philosophy
missionary narratives
Missionary Science
missionary writing
Narrative Politics
Narratives of Conquest
Political Demonology
Political Judgment
Politics of Historiography
religious conversion
Scientific Revolution
Spanish Empire
Spanish Missionaries

Product details

  • ISBN 9781683401704
  • Weight: 315g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jan 2021
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description
In Writing the New World, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought. Revealing their narrative context, religious ideals, and political implications, Caraccioli shows how these sixteenth-century works promoted a distinct genre of philosophical wonder in service of an emerging colonial social order.

Caraccioli discusses narrative techniques employed by well-known figures such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Bartolomé de Las Casas as well as less-studied authors including Bernardino de Sahagún, Francisco Hernández, and José de Acosta. More than mere catalogues of the natural wonders of the New World, these writings advocate mining and molding untapped landscapes, detailing the possibilities for extracting not just resources from the land but also new moral values from indigenous communities. Analyzing the intersections between politics, science, and faith that surface in these accounts, Caraccioli shows how the portrayal of nature served the ends of imperial domination.

Integrating the fields of political theory, environmental history, Latin American literature, and religious studies, this book showcases Spain's role in the intellectual formation of modernity and Latin America's place as the crucible for the Scientific Revolution. Its insights are also relevant to debates about the interplay between politics and environmental studies in the Global South today.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Virginia Tech.
About Mauro Jose Caraccioli
Mauro José Caraccioli is assistant professor of political science and core faculty in the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) at Virginia Tech.

More from this author