Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Natural and Moral History of the Indies

José de Acosta

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries, naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the sixteenth century. One of the first comprehensive investigations of the New World, Acosta’s study is strikingly broad in scope. He describes the region’s natural resources, flora and fauna, and terrain. He also writes in detail about the Amerindians and their religious and political practices.
A significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about the New World, Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the Indies reveals an effort to incorporate new information into a Christian, Renaissance worldview. He attempted to confirm for his European readers that a "new" continent did indeed exist and that human beings could and did live in equatorial climates. A keen observer and prescient thinker, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples migrated to the region from Asia, an idea put forth more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering Strait. Acosta's work established a hierarchical classification of Amerindian peoples and thus contributed to what today is understood as the colonial difference in Renaissance European thinking.

Pages: 568

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: October 15, 2002

ISBN: 0822328453

ISBN 13: 9780822328452

Natural and Moral History of the Indies

José de Acosta

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries, naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the sixteenth century. One of the first comprehensive investigations of the New World, Acosta’s study is strikingly broad in scope. He describes the region’s natural resources, flora and fauna, and terrain. He also writes in detail about the Amerindians and their religious and political practices.
A significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about the New World, Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the Indies reveals an effort to incorporate new information into a Christian, Renaissance worldview. He attempted to confirm for his European readers that a "new" continent did indeed exist and that human beings could and did live in equatorial climates. A keen observer and prescient thinker, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples migrated to the region from Asia, an idea put forth more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering Strait. Acosta's work established a hierarchical classification of Amerindian peoples and thus contributed to what today is understood as the colonial difference in Renaissance European thinking.

Pages: 568

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: October 15, 2002

ISBN: 0822328453

ISBN 13: 9780822328452

More books from José de Acosta

The Natural And Moral History Of The Indies (Cambridge Library Collection Hakluyt First Series) (Volume 1)

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

Predicación del Evangelio en las Indias (Spanish Edition)

Vida religiosa y civil de los indios (Historia natural y moral de las Indias)

Tercero Catecismo, y Exposici�n de la Doctrina Christiana Por Sermones, Para Que Los Curas, y Otros Ministros Prediquen, y Ense�en � Los Indios, y � Las Dem�s Personas: Conforme a Lo Que Se Provey� En El Santo Concilio Provincial de Lima El A�o Pas

Le peregrinazioni di Bartolomé Lorenzo

The Natural & Moral History of the Indies: Volume 2

Escritos menores

EPÍSTOLAS

The Natural and Moral History of the Indies 2 Volume Set

The Natural & Moral History of the Indies; Volume 61

Debate sobre la guerra contra China

Rate this book!

Write a review?