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A New World of Animals - Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A New World of Animals - Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or
pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The
story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts
and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder
at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach,
assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how
shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm
of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural
history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans
saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those
who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as
much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the
writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement
of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers
and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of
animals in the network of economic interests driving the early
expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of
natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the
Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from
Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of
the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of
Early Modern European imagination and learning.
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