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New World Cultural Reckonings


Virtual standpoints: the power of outlandishness Planting the main Theodor de Bry: America (1590-1634)
Cannibals surveyed New World cultivation and sacrifice / Exotic American Plants Young man and American wild women
Savage Metropolis The riche mines of Potossi Hulsius: Voyages (1598)
Purchas: Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes (1625) De Laet: Novus orbis (1633) Blaeu: Atlas Major (1662-63)
Ancient Briton as Mexican soldier New World fauna Garcilaso Inca de la Vega: Histoire ... des Inca (1670) Besler: Hortus Eystettensis (1613)

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