The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas

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The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissancem Europe and the Americas
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Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Renaissance Historians and the World
	Old Worlds and the Globe
	Recovering a Global Renaissance
	Chapters in Renaissance Histories of the World
1 Genealogical Histories: Forging Antiquities from New Spain to China
	Franciscan Antiquarians in the New World
	The First Inhabitants of New Spain
	The Indian Descendants of Noah
	The Renaissance Archforger and His Giants
	Berosus Across the Atlantic
	Inventing Genealogies from the New World to China
2 Histories in Motion: Thinking Back to the Moluccas in a Lisbon Hospital
	News from the East
	The Chinese Lesson of Empire
	Moluccan Tales
	The Renaissance of Travels
	A World on the Move
	Northern Obsessions with the Americas
3 Indigenous Comparisons: A Renaissance Bestseller in the Colonial Andes
	Chronicling the World from Peru
	From the Andes to Bavaria
	An Ambivalent Encyclopaedia
	The Effect of History
	Cultural Hierarchy
	The Enigma of the ‘Yndiario’
4 Popular Accounts: Printing Histories of the World in Late Renaissance Venice
	Histories for Sale
	History of the World and Curiosity for the World
	History as an Animal
	Untitled
	In Defence of the History of the World
5 The Twilight of Histories of the World: Jesuit Missions and Imperial Rivalries
	Missionary Histories
	Nature and Culture
	The Birth of World Geopolitics
	Histories of the World as Official History
	At the End of Histories of the World
Conclusions
Bibliography
	Archival sources
	Published primary sources
	Secondary literature
Index