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Order Nr. 53772 SPANISH HISTORICAL WRITING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD. Angel Delgado-Gomez

SPANISH HISTORICAL WRITING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD.

With a Bibliographical Supplement by Susan L. Newbury Including a List of Editions & Translations Published before 1801.
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 1992. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 127, (3) pages. With a Bibliographical Supplement by Susan L. Newbury Including a List of Editions & Translations Published before 1801. Focuses on 70 significant works of history written in Spanish about America before 1700, including on-the-spot narratives, lives of missionaries, ethnographic studies, and natural histories. Complete bibliographical information on 70 books and short-title entries for 325 later editions and translations. Illustrated..... READ MORE

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                            CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS                                     page ix
PREFACE by Norman Fiering                                      xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                               xiv
INTRODUCTION by Angel Delgado-Gomez                             3
    I Novus Orbis: The Early Accounts                           7
   II Into the Mainland: The Conquest of Mexico                14
  III About and by the Indians: Ethnography of Mexico          23
   IV The Land of the Inca: The Conquest of Peru               32
    V The Continental Empire                                   42
   VI The Overall View: The Quest for a General History        52
  VII Church History                                           62
 VIII Biography                                                71
   IX Literature                                               77

EPILOGUE: The New World and the World                          86

RELATED SECONDARY SOURCES                                      89

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT by Susan L. Newbury                 91
    PREFACE                                                    93
    REFERENCES                                                 95
    KEY TO LOCATION SYMBOLS                                    97
    BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WORKS
    FEATURED IN THE EXHIBITION                                 99
    PRE-1801 EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS                        119