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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
5. Introduction: NEW WORLD, NEW HISTORY AND THE WRITING OF AMERICA 1
6. One. BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Life and Writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés 12
7. Two. A READER’S GUIDE TO A NEW WORLD HISTORY (Proemio, bk. 1) 26
8. Three. THE HISTORIAN AS ACTOR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHER Tierra Firme 1514 (bk. 29, chap. 6) 41
9. Four. EYEWITNESS TO AMERICA’S WONDERS Illustrating a Natural History of the Indies (bk. 7, chap. 14) 63
10. Five. AMAZON WOMEN AND NEW WORLD REALITIES Documenting an Expanding World (bk. 6, chap. 33) 82
11. Six. CORTÉS AND THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO Truth and Multiple Testimonies (bk. 33, chap. 54) 98
12. Seven. NATIVE AMERICANS IN OVIEDO’S HISTORY (bk. 29, chap. 26) 113
13. CONCLUSIONS 136
14. APPENDIX A: Chronology of Fernández de Oviedo’s Life and Works 139
15. APPENDIX B: Map of Hispaniola and Tierra Firme, ca. 1540 142
16. APPENDIX C: Translations of passages from Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general y natural de las Indias 143
17. APPENDIX D: Table. Historia general y natural Manuscript Locations and Illustrations/Woodcuts 180
18. APPENDIX E: Illlustrations 188
19. NOTES 271
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 301
21. INDEX 315