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Adair, James. The History of the American Indians. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
2004.
Alves, Abel. The Animals of Spain: An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human
Interaction with Other Animals, 1492- 1826. Brill, 2011.
Anderson, Arthur J.O., trans. General History of the Things of New Spain: Florentine Codex,
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Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early
America (Oxford, 2006).
Asma, Stephen T. On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009.
Barr, Juliana. “Geographies of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the ‘Borderlands’ of the Early
Southwest.” The William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 5–46.
———. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniardsin the Texas Borderlands.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
---. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
(UNC Press, 2007)
Barrera-Osorio, Antonio. Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early
Scientific Revolution (UT, 2006).
Bartram, William. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida.
Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791.
Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Bateman, Rebecca. "Africans and Indians: A Comparative Study of the Black Carib and Black
Seminole," Ethnohistory 1990: 1-24.
Bleichmar, Daniela, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine and Kevin Sheehan. Science in the Spanish
and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 (Stanford, 2008).
Boone, Elizabeth Hill. Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
(University of Texas Press, 2000).
Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in
the Iberian World
Catlin, George. Catlin’s Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence in Europe: With His North
American Indian Collection : With Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and
Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the
Courts of England, France, and Belgium. Vol. 2. 1848.
Cave, Alfred A. Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in
Eastern North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Chaplin, Joyce. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American
Frontier, 1500-1676
Coll Thrush, “The Iceberg and the Cathedral: Encounter, Entanglement, and Isuma in Inuit
London,” Journal of British Studies (2013).
Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.
Westport, Conn, 1972.
Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social
Imagination. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005.
Cuffee, Paul. Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, a Man of Color ... Written Expressly for, and
Originally Printed in, the Liverpool Mercury. [With a Portrait.] (Egerton Smith &
Company, 1811).
de Asúa, Miguel. A New World of Animals: Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian
America (Alershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2005).
de Landa, Diego. Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Dover Publications, 2012), 26-58.
Delbourgo, James. “Fugitive Colours: Shamans’ Knowledge, Chemical Empire, and Atlantic
Revolutions.” In The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820,
edited by Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts, Kapil Raj, and James Delbourgo, 271–320.
Science History Publications/USA, 2009.
Delbourgo, James, and Nicholas Dew, eds. Science and Empire in the Atlantic World. New York:
Routledge, 2008.
De Léry, Jean. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America, trans. Janet
Whatley (University of California Press, 1993).
de Montaigne, Michel. “On Cannibals,” in Complete Essays of Montaigne, ed. Donald Frame
(Stanford: Stanford University Press).
de Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernández. Natural History of the West Indies, trans. Sterling Stoudemire
(Chapel Hill, 1959).
de Pagan, Blaise François. An Historical & Geographical Description of the Great Country &
River of the Amazones in America. Drawn Out of Divers Authors, and Reduced into a
Better Forme (London, 1661).
Du Lac, Perrin. Travels through the Two Louisiana, and Among the Savage Natoins of the
Missouri; Also in the United States, Along the Ohio and the Adjacent Province, in 1801,
1802 & 1803; Translated from the French. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807.
Durán, Diego. Book of the Gods and Rites and The Ancient Calendar, 1st ed. (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1971), 3 -15, 37-45; 90-127.
Edmonson, Munro S. Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Work of Sahagún. Santa Fe: University of
New Mexico Press, 1974.
Elliott, J. H. The Old World and the New: 1492-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992.
Fausto, Carlos and David Rodgers, “Of Enemies and Pets: Warfare and Shamanism in
Amazonia,” American Ethnologist 26, no. 4 (November 1, 1999): 933–956.
Few, Martha and Zeb Tortorici, Centering Animals in Latin America History (Duke, 2012).
Gaudio, Michael. Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization
Grafton, Tony. New Worlds, Ancient Texts. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1995.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1991.
Grotius, Hugo. De veritate religionis Christianae. ('Of the Truth of Christian Religion'). Paris,
1627.
Hämäläinen, Pekka. “The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and
Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands.” The William and Mary Quarterly 67,
no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 173–208.
Hämäläinen, Pekka, and Samuel Truett. “On Borderlands.” Journal of American History 98, no. 2
(2011): 338 –361. doi:10.1093/jahist/jar259.
Harcourt, Robert .The Relation of a Voyage to Guiana. Describing the Climate, Situation,
Fertilitie, & Commodities of That Country: Together with the Manner, and Customes of
the People. Performed by Robert Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt Esquier. 1619, (London,
1626).
Harriot, Thomas. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Hoffman, Ronald, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, eds. Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections
on Personal Identity in Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1997.
Hulme, Peter. “Caribs and Arawaks” in Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean,
1492-1797 (London and New York: Methuen, 1986), 45-87.
Iannini, Christopher. Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of
American Literature (UNC Press, 2012)
Jacoby, Karl. Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History. The
Penguin History of American Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
Kemys, Lawrence. A Relation of the Second Voyage to Guiana. Perfourmed and Written in the
Yeare 1596. By Lawrence Kemys, Gent (London, 1596).
Kirsch, Sharon. What Species Of Creatures: Animal Relations from the New World. Vancouver:
New Star Books, 2008.
Little, Ann M. “‘Shoot That Rogue, for He Hath an Englishman’s Coat On!’: Cultural Cross-
Dressing on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760,” The New England Quarterly, vol. 74,
no. 2 (June 2001), 238-273.
MacCormack, Sabine. On The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007.
Merrell, James Hart. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. 1st ed.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Merritt, Jane T, and Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. At the
Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlanticfrontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Monardes, Nicolas. Joyful News of the New Found World, trans. John Frampton (London, 1577).
Mulroy, Kevin. “Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Seminole Maroons.” Journal of World
History 4, no. 2 (Fall 1993): 287–305.
Mundy, Barbara E. "Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg map of Tenochtitlan, Its
Sources and Meanings." Imago Mundi 50 (1998): 1-22.
Nabokov, Peter. A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Nazzari, Muriel. "Transition toward Slavery: Changing Legal Practice regarding Indians in
Seventeenth-Century Sao Paulo," The Americas 49 (Oct. 1992), 131-155.
Norton, Marcy. “Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican
Aesthetics.” The American Historical Review 111, no. 3 (June 1, 2006): 660–691.
doi:10.1086/ahr.111.3.660.
---. “Going to the Birds: Animals as Things and Beings in Early Modernity” in Paula Findlen,
ed., Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800. New York:
Routledge, 2013.
Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the
Atlantic World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).
Ogilvie, Brian. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (University of
Chicago Press, 2008)
Ostler, Jeffrey. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clarkto Wounded Knee.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Palmié, Stephan. Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British
Atlantic World (The University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Perrault, Claude. Memoir’s for a natural history of animals, trans. Richard Waller (1688).
Popkin, Richard H.“Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhonien in The History of
Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle.
Prieto, Andrés I. Missionary scientists Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
(Vanderbilt University Press, 2011).
R. M, Nevves of Sr. VValter Rauleigh. With the True Description of Guiana: (London:, 1618).
Raleigh, Walter. The Discouerie of the Large, Rich, and Bevvtiful Empyre of Guiana, (London:
by Robert Robinson, 1596), or modern edition.
Rasmussen, Birgit Brander. Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American
Literature
Restall, Matthew. The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
(Stanford University Press, 2009).
Richter, Daniel K. “War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience.” The William and Mary
Quarterly 40, no. 4 (October 1, 1983): 528–559. doi:10.2307/1921807.
Rivettt, Sarah. Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (UNC, 2011)
Robbins, Louise E. Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-
Century Paris (Johns Hopkins, 2002).
Roque, Ricardo. Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human
Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010.
Round, Phillip H. Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Rubiés, Joan-Pau. "Theology, ethnography and the historicization of idolatry." The Journal of the
History of Ideas. 67:4 (2006), 571-96.
Safier, Neil. “Global Knowledge on the Move: Itineraries, Amerindian Narratives, and Depp
Histories of Science.”Isis 101, no. 1 (March 2010): 133–145.
---. Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. (University of
Chicago Press, 2012).
Sayre, Gordon. Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and
English Colonial Literature
Serres, Michel. The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies. Translated by Margaret
Sankey and Peter Cowley. London and New York: Continuum, 2008.
Shoemaker, Nancy. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North
America
Sidbury, James, and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. “Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern
Atlantic.” The William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 181–208.
Staden, Hans. Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil, ed. Neil
L Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, trans. Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier,
Cultures and Practice of Violence Series (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
Stephenson, Marica. “From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role
of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries,”
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Swanton, John R. Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians. Smithsonian Institution Bureau
of American Ethnology Bulletin 88. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1929.
Sweet, David. "Francisca: Indian Slave," in Sweet and Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in
Colonial America.
Thrush, Coll-Peter. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2007.
Turnbull, David. Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of
Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge. Amsterdam : Abingdon: Harwood Academic ;
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van Deusen, Nancy. "Seeing Indios in Sixteenth-Century Castille," William and Mary Quarterly
69 (April 2012), 205-234.
Voyages and Discoveries in South-America. The First up the River of Amazons to Quito in Peru,
and Back Again to Brazil, Perform’d at the Command of the King of Spain. By Christopher
D’Acugna. The Second up the River of Plata, and Thence by Land to the Mines of Potosi. By
Mons. Acarete. The Third from Cayenne into Guiana, in Search of the Lake of Parima, Reputed
the Richest Place in the World. By M. Grillet and Bechamel. Done into English from the
Originals, Being the Only Accounts of Those Parts Hitherto Extant. The Whole Illustrated with
Notes and Maps (London, 1698).
Warkentin, Germaine. “In Search of ‘The Word of the Other’: Aboriginal Sign Systems and the
History of the Book in Canada,” Book History, vol. 2 (1999), 1-28.
Weber, David J. Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
White, Sophie. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Cultureand Race in Colonial
Louisiana. 1st ed. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2012.
Whitehead, Neil L. Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death (Duke University
Press, 2002).
Whitehead, Neil L. and Michael Harbsmeier, Introduction,” Hans Staden’s True History: An
Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil, xv-civ.
Whitehead, Neil L. chaps 1 & 2 in Walter Raleigh, The discoverie of the large, rich, and bewtiful
Empyre of Guiana, ed. Neil L Whitehead (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).
Witgen, Michael. An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North
America
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Articles on White and Hariot by Katherine Coombs, Deborah Harkness, and Joan-Pau Rubié in
the online volume, “European Visions: American Voices” at:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series/research_publi
cations_online/european_visions.aspx
Optional:
Essential Codex Mendoza, ed. Berdan and Anawalt, Vol 1 ( xi – xiii, 3 – 9), 145 – 157, Vol. 4 (
7-11, 96-99, 118-122)