| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xxii, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : On describing ourselves describing ourselves : comparatism, differences, and pluritopic hermeneutics -- 1. Nebrija in the new world : Renaissance philosophy of language and the spread of western literacy -- 2. The materiality of reading and writing cultures : the chain of sounds, graphic signs, and sign carriers -- 3. Record keeping without letters and writing histories of people wiithout history -- 4. Genres as social practices : histories, Enkyclopaideias, and the limits of knowledge and understanding -- 5. The movable center : ethnicity, geometric projections, and coexisting territorialities -- 6. Putting the Americas on the map : cartography and the colonization of space -- Afterword : On modernity, colonization, and the rise of occidentalism. |
| Subject |
Latin America -- Historiography.
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Latin America. |
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Historiography. |
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Indians -- Historiography.
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Indians -- Historiography. |
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Renaissance -- Spain.
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Renaissance. |
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Spain. |
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Latin America -- History -- To 1600.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1600 |
| Subject |
Language and history -- Latin America.
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Language and history. |
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Indians -- Languages -- Writing.
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Indians -- Languages -- Writing. |
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Writing -- History.
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Writing. |
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Cartography -- Spain -- History.
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Cartography. |
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Latin America -- Maps -- History.
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Maps. |
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Latin America -- Historiography. |
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Latin America -- History -- To 1600. |
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Latin America -- Maps -- History. |
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Indiens d'Amérique -- Historiographie. |
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Architecture de la Renaissance -- Espagne. |
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Langage et histoire -- Amérique latine. |
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Langues indiennes d'Amérique -- Écriture. |
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Écriture -- Histoire. |
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Cartographie -- Espagne -- Histoire. |
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Amérique latine -- Historiographie. |
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Amérique latine -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1600. |
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Amérique latine -- Histoire -- Cartes. |
| ISBN |
0472089315 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780472089314 paperback alkaline paper |
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