From Paradise to the Extractive Zone: Anthropogenic Environmental Change and Historical Agency in Antonio de León Pinelo’s El paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo
Abstract:This essay provides an interpretation of Antonio León Pinelo's ideas on natural history and anthropogenic environmental change. It is centered on Pinelo's El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo, a midseventeenth-century work that combines narratives regarding the geographical location of the Garden of Eden with theories on the natural history of the Indies. Building on studies that examine narratives on environmental change in the context of European expansion, this article intervenes in a growing academic literature th… Show more
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