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List of Illustrations | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Toward a New Art of Reading and New Historical Interpretations | p. 11 |
Philosophical Travelers and the Humanist Art of Reading | p. 13 |
Compilations of Travel Narratives | p. 22 |
Cornelius de Pauw's New Art of Reading | p. 26 |
The Critique of Classical Analogies in the Historiography of the New World | p. 38 |
Conjectural and Philosophical Histories of America | p. 44 |
Amerindians as Evidence | p. 49 |
The Pursuit of Objectivity | p. 51 |
New Similes, Same Historiography | p. 55 |
Changing European Interpretations of the Reliability of Indigenous Sources | p. 60 |
Primitive Scripts, Reliable Historical Documents | p. 63 |
Philology, Collation, and Translation | p. 70 |
Images as Sources in the Early Modern European World | p. 88 |
Curiosities, Renaissance Humanists, and Amerindian Scripts | p. 92 |
Conjectural Histories of Writing | p. 95 |
Natural Histories of the Mind | p. 111 |
Amerindian Sources in Eighteenth-Century European Historiography | p. 114 |
Historiography and Patriotism in Spain | p. 130 |
The Travails of Lorenzo Boturini | p. 135 |
Boturini's Idea de una nueva historia general de la America Septentrional | p. 136 |
Clashing Patriotic Agendas | p. 142 |
Boturini's Ciclografia | p. 148 |
Empires Are Lost or Won in the Struggle over Naming and Remembering | p. 155 |
The Royal Academy of History and the History of the New World, 1755-1770 | p. 160 |
The First Debate | p. 161 |
The Council of the Indies and the Academy | p. 163 |
The Second Debate | p. 166 |
The Archive of the Indies | p. 170 |
The Reception of Robertson's History of America | p. 171 |
Footnoting Robertson's History | p. 174 |
The Anonymous Review | p. 178 |
Juan Nuix's Riflessioni imparziali | p. 182 |
Ramon Diosdado Caballero | p. 186 |
Juan Bautista Munoz | p. 190 |
Why Create Archives? | p. 193 |
Munoz's History | p. 196 |
Crisis in the Academy | p. 197 |
Francisco Iturri's Critique | p. 199 |
Conclusion | p. 201 |
The Making of a "Patriotic Epistemology" | p. 204 |
Patriotic Epistemology: An Overview | p. 206 |
The Making of Patriotic Epistemology: Mexico, 1750-1780 | p. 210 |
Juan Jose de Eguiaray Eguren | p. 210 |
Mariano Fernandez de Echeverriay Veytia | p. 213 |
Three Processes of Distortion | p. 217 |
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl | p. 221 |
Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri | p. 225 |
Jose Joaquin Granados y Galvez | p. 230 |
Creole Jesuits in Exile | p. 234 |
Francisco Xavier Clavijero | p. 235 |
Juan de Velasco | p. 249 |
Juan Ignacio Molina | p. 253 |
Pedro Jose Marquez | p. 254 |
Jose Lino Fabrega | p. 258 |
Manco Capac: The Ultimate Sage | p. 261 |
Whose Enlightenment Was It Anyway? | p. 266 |
The Stones: Interpreting the Spanish-American Enlightenment | p. 268 |
Antonio de Leon y Gama's Descripcion historica | p. 271 |
Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez's Misgivings | p. 281 |
Alzate y Ramirez on Xochicalco | p. 284 |
Alzate y Ramirez's Critique of Leon y Gama | p. 286 |
Leon y Gama's Reply | p. 287 |
Lizards and Epistemology | p. 291 |
A General Key to Mesoamerican Hieroglyphs? | p. 292 |
Why Did Boturini's Collection Never Reach Madrid? | p. 300 |
Our Lady of Guadalupe as Neoplatonic Seal and Mesoamerican Glyph | p. 305 |
Jose Ignacio Borunda's Clave general de geroglificos americanos | p. 306 |
Borunda on the Stones | p. 309 |
Christian Icons and Nahua Glyphs | p. 312 |
The Ruins of Palenque | p. 321 |
The Parish Priest and the Governor | p. 322 |
Antonio Bernasconi's Expedition to Palenque | p. 325 |
Antonio del Rio's Expedition to Palenque | p. 328 |
Interpreting Palenque | p. 330 |
Interpreting the Provanza de Votan | p. 333 |
Pablo Felix Cabrera's Theatro critico americano | p. 334 |
A Biblical Exegesis of the Popol Vuh | p. 338 |
Conclusion | p. 346 |
Notes | p. 349 |
Bibliography | p. 403 |
Index | p. 439 |
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