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How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writing the Amer
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This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—in short, there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it.
How to Write the History of the New World
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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province