Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America : : A New History for a New World / / Kathleen Ann Myers.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: NEW WORLD, NEW HISTORY AND THE WRITING OF AMERICA
- One. BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Life and Writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
- Two. A READER’S GUIDE TO A NEW WORLD HISTORY (Proemio, bk. 1)
- Three. THE HISTORIAN AS ACTOR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHER Tierra Firme 1514 (bk. 29, chap. 6)
- Four. EYEWITNESS TO AMERICA’S WONDERS Illustrating a Natural History of the Indies (bk. 7, chap. 14)
- Five. AMAZON WOMEN AND NEW WORLD REALITIES Documenting an Expanding World (bk. 6, chap. 33)
- Six. CORTÉS AND THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO Truth and Multiple Testimonies (bk. 33, chap. 54)
- Seven. NATIVE AMERICANS IN OVIEDO’S HISTORY (bk. 29, chap. 26)
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX A: Chronology of Fernández de Oviedo’s Life and Works
- APPENDIX B: Map of Hispaniola and Tierra Firme, ca. 1540
- APPENDIX C: Translations of passages from Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general y natural de las Indias
- APPENDIX D: Table. Historia general y natural Manuscript Locations and Illustrations/Woodcuts
- APPENDIX E: Illlustrations
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX