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The Spanish Disquiet
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Pages: 443
Authors: María M. Portuondo
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars.
Disquiet, Please!
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: David Remnick
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-09 - Publisher: Modern Library

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The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it’s also
Secret Science
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: María M. Portuondo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who li
The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Margaret Jull Costa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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A collection of Spanish fantasy fiction, including tales of ghosts, fabulous creatures, time travel, and metamorphoses.
The Indies of the Setting Sun
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Ricardo Padrón
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Padrón reveals the evolution of Spain’s imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe’s westward expansion often tell