LEADER 03416oam 2200541I 450 001 9910963744203321 005 20251117090027.0 010 $a1-315-26380-7 010 $a1-351-96214-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315263809 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817020 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817020 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356195 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL997040 035 $a(OCoLC)975225938 035 $a(OCoLC)974711311 035 $a(BIP)61810328 035 $a(BIP)11435620 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081390 100 $a20180706e20162005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA new world of animals $eearly modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America /$fMiguel de Asua and Roger French 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aFirst published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0779-8 311 08$a1-351-96215-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. The unexpected menagerie of the New World -- 2. Solders and Amerindians -- 3. The new histories of the New World -- 4. Joyful and profitable news from the New World. Animals, medicine and commerce -- 5. Learned missionaries and Jesuit scholars -- 6. New World animals and shifting conceptions of natural history. 330 $aMany Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning. 606 $aAnimals$zLatin America$xHistory 607 $aLatin America$xDiscovery and exploration 615 0$aAnimals$xHistory. 676 $a591.98 700 $aAsua$b Miguel de.$0897854 701 $aFrench$b R. K$g(Roger Kenneth)$0897855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963744203321 996 $aA new world of animals$94475972 997 $aUNINA