The Dispute of the New World

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University of Pittsburgh Pre, 20 jun 2010 - 719 pagina's
When Hegel described the Americas as an inferior continent, he was repeating a contention that inspired one of the most passionate debates of modern times. Originally formulated by the eminent natural scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and expanded by the Prussian encyclopedist Cornelius de Pauw, this provocative thesis drew heated responses from politicians, philosophers, publicists, and patriots on both sides of the Atlantic. The ensuing polemic reached its apex in the latter decades of the eighteenth century and is far from extinct today.

Translated in 1973, The Dispute of the New World is the definitive study of this debate. Antonello Gerbi scrutinizes each contribution to the debate, unravels the complex arguments, and reveals their inner motivations. As the story of the polemic unfolds, moving through many disciplines that include biology, economics, anthropology, theology, geophysics, and poetry, it becomes clear that the subject at issue is nothing less than the totality of the Old World versus the New, and how each viewed the other at a vital turning point in history.
 

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Chapter1
3
Chapter2
35
Chapter3
52
Chapter4
80
Chapter5
157
Chapter6
289
Chapter7
325
Chapter8
442
Chapter9
565
Bibliography
631
Suggested Readings
655
Index
671
Spine
703
Back Cover
704
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Over de auteur (2010)

Antonello Gerbi (1904-1976) was a specialist on the history of political ideology and the author of several books, including Nature in the New World: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fern ndez de Oviedo.

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