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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra


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Books
  
Puritan Conquistadors, How to Write the History of, Nature - Empire - And Nation

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is a faculty member in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professorship in History. He is most notable for his work in Atlantic history, the history of science in the early modern Spanish empire, and the colonizing ideologies of the Iberian and British empires. He was born in Ecuador, and grew up Mexico and Colombia. He earned his doctorate in the History of Science Department at University of Wisconsin and has held a number of fellowships.

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Selected books

  • How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2002), Winner, John E. Fagg Prize in Spanish and Latin American history, American Historical Association; the book also won the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association.
  • Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford University Press, 2006)
  • Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (Stanford University Press, 2006), Honorable Mention, Murdo J. MacLeod Prize, The Southern Historical Association Latin American and Caribbean Section

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