New world encounters
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Introduction : New World Enconunters. -- "Letter to the sovereigns" : announcing the discovery. -- "Fierce and unnatural cruelty". -- Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. -- The negotiation of fear in cabeza de Vaca's naugragios. -- Ius et factum : text and experience in the writtings of Bartolomé de Las Casas. -- Demons, imagination, and the Incas. -- The philosopher's breviary: Jean de Léry in the enlightenment. -- The aesthetics of conquist : aztec poetry. -- Before and after Cortés. -- Dancing and the sacred in the Andes : from the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Ñiti. -- The work of gender in the discourse of discovery. -- Ralegh's fugitive gold : reference and deferral in the discoverie of Guiana. -- Voices of resistance : the epic curse and camoes's adamastor. -- Elizabethan Tobacco
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América--Descubrimientos y exploraciones
América--Descripciones y viajes
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