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Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire

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Author(s): Mauro J. Caraccioli
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Publication year: 2020

The Story So Far

Short impact summary

Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (2021), published by University of Florida Press, has been cited 10 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 10% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 1,371 times.

Full narrative

Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire by Mauro Jose Caraccioli was published by University of Florida Press in 2021. Conceptually, the work connects to Politics, Modernity, Empire, Colonialism and Narrative. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Environmental Humanities.

OpenAlex records 10 citations. That places it in the top 10% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2022 with 2 citing works. Notable citing venues include Citizenship Studies, Fronteras de la historia and Librosdelacorte es. The citing works include 5 journal articles and 5 book chapters. They come from 4 countries, led by the United States, Switzerland and Italy.

It has been downloaded 1,371 times via Figshare and Ubiquity Press. Open Library reports a combined count of 4 reading logs and catalog editions. Its subject matter aligns with Life in Land among the Sustainable Development Goals.

Narrative note: this summary is AI-assisted and generated from structured metadata/signals.

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Crossref Event Data: historical records unavailable locally—not zero events. The public API was retired on 23 April 2026. Other attention sources may still be shown.

10
Total Citations
Top 10% Cited
2021–2026
1,371
Downloads (OAPEN)
2020 (Jan–Dec)
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Citation context via scite
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Additional signals
📚 WorldCat search 🌍 Reach · 4 countries

Inferred roles

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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Moderate
🏛 Practical & Real-World
Commercial linkage Strong Sustainability & policy relevance Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

Access Availability

Full text beyond the publisher

3 distinct locations with full-text evidence. Availability is reported by the index and may change.

Reader reception Books

Citation context scite

  • Total: 1
  • Supporting: 0
  • Mentioning: 1
  • Contradicting: 0

Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 10 citing works. 80.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →

article (5)book-chapter (5) Citizenship StudiesFronteras de la historiaLibrosdelacorte es
United States (4) Switzerland (1) Italy (1) Portugal (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (7) Facility (1)
  • Virginia Tech (3)
  • University of Lisbon (1)
  • University of St.Gallen (1)
  • Centro de História (1)
  • University of Turin (1)
  • Michigan State University (1)
  • Desirée Poets (1)
  • Ângela Domingues (1)
  • Jan-Henrik Witthaus (1)
  • Meike Piepenbring (1)
  • Ana Lucía Camphora (1)
  • Jerry Burkette (1)
  • Míriam Adelman (1)
  • Lucas de Oliveira Paes (1)
  • Elana Wilson Rowe (1)
  • Alexander T. Stubberfield (1)
  • Michela Catto (1)
  • María Bonete Escoto (1)

Open Science Signals PRISM

Open peer review and repository accessibility signals for this work.

Open Peer Review PRISM

  • Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
  • Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
  • Publisher context: University Press of Florida

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

Evidence of structured teaching use, reading lists, and library availability.

OpenCourseWare Mentions Google Custom Search

No verified course syllabi found in open university repositories.

Library & Community Access Open Library

Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex

1 author · 0 institutions

Authors

  • Mauro J. Caraccioli First Corresponding ORCID

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

20 specific concepts identified.
Politics Modernity Empire Colonialism Narrative Faith History Context (archaeology) Historiography Indigenous Literature Humanities Political science Art Philosophy Law Epistemology Archaeology Biology Ecology

UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex

1 targets detected.
Life in Land (0.46)

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Citations OpenAlex

10 most recent citing works (newest first)
YearTitleVenueDOI
2026 Giambattista Vicos transmoderner Begriff des Gemeinsinns: Zu den aktuellen, konkret-utopischen Verheißungen einer verpassten Moderne Ästhetiken X.0 10.1007/978-3-662-72632-7_8
2025 4 Nature’s Hierarchies? Ecosystems and Order Making Bristol University Press eBooks 10.56687/9781529248944-007
2025 181Bodies and Extractivism in Spanish Natural History Unknown 10.1515/9783111249315-008
2024 Biodiversity in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag eBooks 10.14361/9783839470121-005
2024 A Amazónia na história do Novo Mundo: Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, as “Observações gerais e particulares sobre a classe dos mamíferos” e os povos originários Fronteras de la historia 10.22380/20274688.2725
2023 Maravilla y miseria: discurso, agenda y entorno en los Naufragios y la Segunda carta de relación Brújula: Revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos 10.58748/bydh9459
2023 Technonaturalism: A Postphenomenological Environ-Mentality Environmental Politics and Theory 10.1007/978-3-031-14346-5_27
2022 Historiography and apocalypse, an intimate relationship? História da Historiografia International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography 10.15848/hh.v15i39.1863
2022 L’egemonia globale del monoteismo: comprendere le Indie Occidentali attraverso l’Oriente Librosdelacorte es 10.15366/ldc2022.14.24.007
2021 Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region Citizenship Studies 10.1080/13621025.2021.1984504

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