Bibliography: Nature and Empire: Natural Histories and Colonial Rule

Bibliography: Nature and Empire: Natural Histories and Colonial Rule  

• Alcántara Rojas, Berenice. “In Nepapan Xochitl: The Power of Flowers in the Works of Sahagún”. In Color Between Two Worlds, edited by Gerhard Wolf and Joseph Connors. Florence: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institut: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2011. 107-134.
• Barrera-Osorio, Antonio. Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution. University of Texas Press, 2006. [specially Chapters 4 and 5] (ebook)
• Bigelow, Allison. Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World. Williamsburg and Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
• Bleichmar, Daniela. Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.  [Chapters 1 and 2] (Moodle)
• Bleichmar, Daniela and Paula de Vos, editors. Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800. Stanford University Press, 2009. [specially chapters 5 and 11] (ebook)
• Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Nature, Empire, and Nation. Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. [specially chapters 1 and 2] (Moodle)
• Gansen, Elizabeth (2019) “Framing the Indies: The Renaissance Aesthetics of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557)”, Colonial Latin American Review, 28:2, 130-151.
• Gerbi, Antonello. Nature in the New World: from Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 
• Lane, Kris. Potosí. The Silver City that Changed the World. Oakland: California University Press, 2019. [especially introduction and chapters 1 and 2] (ebook)
• Magaloni Kerpel. Diana. The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2014.
• Mancall, Peter. Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. [Chapter 1] (ebook)
• Myers, Kathleen A. Fernández de Oviedo’s Chronicle of America. A New History of the World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
• Norton, Marcy. “The Quetzal Takes Flight: Microhistory, Mesoamerican Knowledge, and Early Modern Natural History”. In Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Edited by Jaime Marroquin Arredondo and Ralph Bauer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 119-147