How to Write the History of the New World

How to Write the History of the New World

Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

450 pages· ISBN 9780804746939
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An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon’s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon’s view. 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 New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.

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