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Natural and Moral History of the Indies (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Natural and Moral History of the Indies (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The "Natural and Moral History of the Indies," the classic work of
New World history originally published by Jose de Acosta in 1590,
is now available in the first new English translation to appear in
several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this
account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru
and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries,
naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the
sixteenth century. One of the first comprehensive investigations of
the New World, Acosta's study is strikingly broad in scope. He
describes the region's natural resources, flora and fauna, and
terrain. He also writes in detail about the Amerindians and their
religious and political practices.
A significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about
the New World, Acosta's" Natural and Moral History of the Indies"
reveals an effort to incorporate new information into a Christian,
Renaissance worldview. He attempted to confirm for his European
readers that a "new" continent did indeed exist and that human
beings could and did live in equatorial climates. A keen observer
and prescient thinker, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's
indigenous peoples migrated to the region from Asia, an idea put
forth more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering
Strait. Acosta's work established a hierarchical classification of
Amerindian peoples and thus contributed to what today is understood
as the colonial difference in Renaissance European thinking.
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