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

Humanities
Open Access · Green
Author(s): Mauro J. Caraccioli
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Publication year: 2020
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Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (2021), published by University of Florida Press. Sustainability & policy relevance (strength 0.6). 1153 downloads — actief gebruik.

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Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire was published by University of Florida Press in 2021. Conceptually, the work connects to Politics, Modernity, Empire, Colonialism and Narrative.

OpenAlex records 9 citations. Citations peaked in 2022 with 2 citing works. Notable citing venues include Citizenship Studies, História da Historiografia International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography and Librosdelacorte es. Inferred role: Sustainability & policy relevance and Scholarly uptake.

1153 recorded downloads via open-access infrastructure. SDG alignment: Life in Land.

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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Emerging
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Sustainability & policy relevance Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

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    • 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Environmental Humanities

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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 9 citing works. 77.8% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 0 times itself.

article (5)book-chapter (4) Citizenship StudiesFronteras de la historiaLibrosdelacorte es
United States of America (4) Italy (1) Portugal (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (6)
  • Virginia Tech (3)
  • University of Lisbon (1)
  • Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (1)
  • University of Turin (1)
  • Michigan State University (1)
  • Paul M. Beaumont (1)
  • Desirée Poets (1)
  • Ângela Domingues (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)
  • Jan-Henrik Witthaus (1)

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    1 distinct authors contributed to chapters within this volume.
    Sati U. Fwatshak
  • Mauro J. Caraccioli First Corresponding ORCID

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

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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

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Life in Land (0.46)

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Citations OpenAlex

9 citing works (most recent first)
YearTitleVenueDOI
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
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
2023 Technonaturalism: A Postphenomenological Environ-Mentality Environmental Politics and Theory 10.1007/978-3-031-14346-5_27
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
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
2024 Biodiversity in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag eBooks 10.14361/9783839470121-005
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