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Bibliography

Books to Buy

  • Acosta, José de, Natural and Moral History of the Indies, trans. Frances López-Morillas, Duke University Press (Durham, 2002).

Background Reading

 
Useful general histories of colonial Latin America include:

  • Burkholder, Mark, and Lyman Johnson, Colonial Latin America, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1990)
  • Elliott, John, ‘The Spanish Conquest’ and ‘Spain and America Before 1700’, in Colonial Spanish America, ed. Leslie Bethell, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1987).
  • Gibson, Charles, Spain in America, Harper & Row (New York, 1966).
  • Lockhart, James, and Stuart Schwartz, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1983).
  • Mills, Kenneth and William Taylor, Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History, SR Books (Wilmington, 1998).

For a good introduction to the history of science consider:

  • Dear, Peter, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Basinstoke: Palgrave, 2001),

Other Reading

  • Abulafia, David, The Discovery of Mankind. Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2008).
  • Abu-Lughod, Janet L., Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (New York, 1989).
  • Acosta, José de, Natural and Moral History of the Indies, trans. Frances López-Morillas, Duke University Press (Durham, 2002).
  • Adorno, Rolena, ‘The Genesis of Felipe Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno’, Colonial Latin American Review, 1993 2(1-2): 53-92.
  • Adorno, Rolena, Guaman Poma and his illustrated chronicle from colonial Peru : from a century of scholarship to a new era of reading (Copenhagen, 2001), http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/
  • Adorno, Rolena, Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, University of Texas Press (Austin, 1986).
  • Álvarez Moreno, Raúl, ‘El admirarse como forma de enfrentar la nueva realidad americana’, Anuario de Estudios Americanos LXI, 2 (2004).
  • Anderson, Arthur J.O., Beyond the codices : the Nahua view of colonial Mexico, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1976).
  • Anthony Padgen, ed., Facing Each Other: The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World, 2 vols, Ashgate (Aldershot, 2000).
  • Apocalypto, dir. Mel Gibson, 2006.
  • Appadurai, Arjun, ‘Disjuncture and Difference in Global Cultural Economy’, Public Culture 2 (1990), 1-24.
  • Aristotle, Physics and On the Heavens, in Malcolm Oster, Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Source Reader, Palgrave (Basingstoke, 2002), pp. 8-15.
  • Arrizabalaga, Jon, Roger French and John Henderson, The Great Pox: The French Pox in Renaissance Europe, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1997).
  • Auguries of Nature, Selections from two Medieval Bestiaries, in Robert M. Torrance, ed., Encompassing Nature: A Sourcebook, Counterpoint (Washington D.C., 1998), pp. 579-584.
  • Axtell, James, ‘Columbian Encounters, 1992-1995,’ William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., 52, no. 4 (1995): 649-96.
  • Axtell, James, Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1992)
  • Axtell, James, Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2001).
  • Bacon, Francis, Novum Organum (The New Organon; or, True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature), trans. James Spedding, in Robert M. Torrance, Encompassing Nature: A Sourcebook, Counterpoint (Washington D.C., 1998), 878-885.
  • Baird, Ellen, ‘Sahagún and the Representation of History’, Sahagún at 500: Essays on the Quincentenary of the Birth of Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Academy of American Franciscan Historians (Berkeley, 2003).
  • Baird, Ellen, ‘The Reordering of Space in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Some Implications of the Grid’, in Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith, ed. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tulane University Press (New Orleans, 2005).
  • Barrera-Osorio, Antonio, ‘Local Herbs, Global Medicine, Commerce, Knowledge, and Commodities in Spanish America’, in Pamela Smith and Paula Findlen (eds.), Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (New York/London, 2002), pp. 163-181.
  • Barrera-Osorio, Antonio, Experiencing Nature: 
The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution, University of Texas Press (Austin, 2006).
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  • Black, Jeremy, A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society, 1550-1800, Macmillan Education (Basingstoke, 1991).
  • Bono, James J., The World of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, 1995).
  • Boone, Elizabeth, ‘Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico’, Native Traditions in the Postconquest World, eds. Tom Cummins and Elizabeth Boone, Dunbarton Oaks (Washington, 1998).
  • Boone, Elizabeth, Stories in Red and Black, University of Texas Press (Austin, 2000).
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  • Boyle, J.A., ‘Marco Polo and his Description of the World’, History Today (1971).
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  • Cook, Harold J., ‘Time’s Bodies: Crafting the Preparations and Preservations of Naturalia’, in Pamela Smith and Paula Findlen (eds.), Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, Routledge (New York and London: 2001), pp. 223-247.
  • Cook, Harold J., Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, Yale University Press, 2007.
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  • Cook, Noble David, Born to Die, Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1998).
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  • Crosby, Alfred, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1986).
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  • Dear, Peter, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Basinstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
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  • Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, ed., America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, 1995).
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  • Kusukawa, Sachiko, ‘The Uses of Pictures in the Formation of Learned Knowledge: The Cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius’, Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe, eds. Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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