Title The globe on paper : writing histories of the world in Renaissance Europe and the Americas / Giuseppe Marcocci ; translated by Richard Bates

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissancem Europe and the Americas -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Renaissance Historians and the World -- Old Worlds and the Globe -- Recovering a Global Renaissance -- Chapters in Renaissance Histories of the World -- 1 Genealogical Histories: Forging Antiquities from New Spain to China -- Franciscan Antiquarians in the New World -- The First Inhabitants of New Spain -- The Indian Descendants of Noah -- The Renaissance Archforger and His Giants Berosus Across the Atlantic -- Inventing Genealogies from the New World to China -- 2 Histories in Motion: Thinking Back to the Moluccas in a Lisbon Hospital -- News from the East -- The Chinese Lesson of Empire -- Moluccan Tales -- The Renaissance of Travels -- A World on the Move -- Northern Obsessions with the Americas -- 3 Indigenous Comparisons: A Renaissance Bestseller in the Colonial Andes -- Chronicling the World from Peru -- From the Andes to Bavaria -- An Ambivalent Encyclopaedia -- The Effect of History -- Cultural Hierarchy -- The Enigma of the 'Yndiario' 4 Popular Accounts: Printing Histories of the World in Late Renaissance Venice -- Histories for Sale -- History of the World and Curiosity for the World -- History as an Animal -- Untitled -- In Defence of the History of the World -- 5 The Twilight of Histories of the World: Jesuit Missions and Imperial Rivalries -- Missionary Histories -- Nature and Culture -- The Birth of World Geopolitics -- Histories of the World as Official History -- At the End of Histories of the World -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Published primary sources -- Secondary literature -- Index Summary How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2020) Subject Historiography -- 16th century Historiography -- 17th century Historiography Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192589576 0192589571 9780192589569 0192589563

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