"This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the Spanish empire struggled for survival amid the fi…
"This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the Spanish empire struggled for survival amid the fi…
"This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the Spanish empire struggled for survival amid the fi…
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. This is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histor…
Cervantes, the novel, and the New World
Cervantes, the novel, and the new world
Cervantes, the novel, and the new world
"Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in the European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The conquest, exploration, and colonization of the Indies resonate through Cervantes's two novels Don Quixote (1605, 1615), and …
Cervantes, the novel, and the new world
This text is an exploration of the origins and lasting influence of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, and, nature.
Introduction: Conformity -- Part 1. The city: Cuzco -- Cuzco's aesthetic of sameness -- Rethinking "Rubens" in the Andes -- Part 2. The cathedral: Mexico City -- Inventors in New Spain -- Metropolitan academicians -- Part 3. The viceroyalty: New Spain and Peru -- The transatlant…
