How to Write the History of the New World Krista E. Van Vleet " In War in the

" In War in the West Mr

Stig Abell and Martin Ivens

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Simon Schama (Harvard University)

How to Write the History of the New World Krista E. Van Vleet " In War in theIn the 'dispute of the New World' many eighteenth and nineteenth century historians, naturalists, and moral philosophers from Europe and the Americas sought either to confirm or refute the views of the French naturalist Buffon, who had contended that the New World was in fact geologically new. This book maintains that 'dispute' was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should one reconstruct the history of the continent