How to write the history of the New World: histories, epistemologies, and identities in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

List of illustrations Introduction 1. Towards a new art of reading and new historical interpretations 2. Changing european interpretations of the reliability of indigenous sources 3. Historiography and patriotism in Spain 4. The making of a 'patriontic epistemology' 5. Whose enlightenment was it anyway? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.