Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)

This chapter focuses on the plural practices of history writing taking shape in a broad space between Europe and America – spanning from Edinburgh to Mexico City or Princeton, and through the Pontifical States in Italy –, in a period of major changes: 1770s-1810s. It takes the “dispute on the New Wo...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:acb29aa14e65410192484ccc053685862021-12-02T10:34:17ZCuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.79176https://doaj.org/article/acb29aa14e65410192484ccc053685862020-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/79176https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This chapter focuses on the plural practices of history writing taking shape in a broad space between Europe and America – spanning from Edinburgh to Mexico City or Princeton, and through the Pontifical States in Italy –, in a period of major changes: 1770s-1810s. It takes the “dispute on the New World” between the Presbyterian reverend William Robertson, one of the leading historians of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Mexican Jesuit Francis Javier Clavijero, exiled to Bologna, as case study. This debate is deeply entangled with the controversy about the “science of man” and the concurrent formation of anthropology, which counts, among its major American champions, the Presbyterian Principal of the University of New Jersey, Samuel Stanhope Smith, and Benjamin Smith Barton, who studied Medicine in Edinburgh and then taught Natural History, Botany and Medicine at the College of Philadelphia. It is within such a transatlantic and trans-imperial interactions, negotiations and competitions that Clavijero’s History, as well as Smith’s and Barton’s essays, have to be placed.Silvia SebastianiCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleenlightenment“dispute on the New World”history writingsciences of mantransatlantic and trans-imperial interactionsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2020)
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topic enlightenment
“dispute on the New World”
history writing
sciences of man
transatlantic and trans-imperial interactions
Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
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spellingShingle enlightenment
“dispute on the New World”
history writing
sciences of man
transatlantic and trans-imperial interactions
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Latin America. Spanish America
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Silvia Sebastiani
Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)
description This chapter focuses on the plural practices of history writing taking shape in a broad space between Europe and America – spanning from Edinburgh to Mexico City or Princeton, and through the Pontifical States in Italy –, in a period of major changes: 1770s-1810s. It takes the “dispute on the New World” between the Presbyterian reverend William Robertson, one of the leading historians of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Mexican Jesuit Francis Javier Clavijero, exiled to Bologna, as case study. This debate is deeply entangled with the controversy about the “science of man” and the concurrent formation of anthropology, which counts, among its major American champions, the Presbyterian Principal of the University of New Jersey, Samuel Stanhope Smith, and Benjamin Smith Barton, who studied Medicine in Edinburgh and then taught Natural History, Botany and Medicine at the College of Philadelphia. It is within such a transatlantic and trans-imperial interactions, negotiations and competitions that Clavijero’s History, as well as Smith’s and Barton’s essays, have to be placed.
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title Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)
title_short Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)
title_full Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)
title_fullStr Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)
title_full_unstemmed Cuando América entró en la “disputa del Nuevo Mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del Atlántico (1770-1810)
title_sort cuando américa entró en la “disputa del nuevo mundo”: la escritura de la historia y la formación de las disciplinas a través del atlántico (1770-1810)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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