On-line Coursepack

1. from Columbus, The Book of Prophecies
2. from Aztecs Accounts of the Conquest (collected by Bernadino de Sahagun)
3. Anthony Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts \
4. from The Badianus ms
5. from Nicolas Monardes, La Historia Medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
6. from Francisco Hernandez, The Mexican Treasury
7. Oswaldo Pardo, "Contesting the Power to heal: angels, demons and plants in colonial Mexico"
8. Sir Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of the empire of Guaiana
9. from Charles Nicholl, The Creature in the Map
10. from Francis Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
11. Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World
12. Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions
13. Eric Cheyfitz, The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan
14. from Octavio Paz, Sor Juana, or the traps Faith
15. Karen Gordon-Gube, "Evidence of Medicinal Canniblaism in Puritan New-England," Early American LIterature 28, no. 3 (1993): 185-221
16. Edward Taylor, Selections

Possible Books for Book Reviews

1. Tzvetan Todorov, The Conqust of America
2. Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance
3. Charles Webster, From Paracelsus to Newton
4. William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature
5. William Newman, Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
6. Valerie Flint, The Rise of Magic in early medieval Europe
7. Fernando Cervantes, The Devil in the New World
8. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic.
9. Djelal Kadir, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth
10. Albenese, Denise, New Science, New World
11. Cobb, Noel, Prospero's Island: the secret alchemy at the heart of The Tempest
12. Debus, Allen G. and Michael Walton, eds., Reading the Book of Nature,
13. Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood
14. Greenblatt, Stephen, Marvelous Possessions
15. Hall, David, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: popular religious belief in early New England
16. Knapp, Jeffrey, An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The Tempest
17. Miller, Shannon, Invested with Meaning: The Ralegh Circle in the New World (
18. Nerlich, Michael, The Ideology of Adventure
19. Newman, William Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
20. --- and Anthony Grafton, eds., Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in early modern Europe
21. O'Gorman, Edmundo, The Invention of America
22. Pagden, Anthony, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology
23. ---European Encounters with the New World. From Renaissance to Romanticism
24. Pastor, Beatriz, The Armature of Conquest. Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589, trans. Lydia Longstreth Hunt.
25. Schiebinger, Londa, and Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the early modern World
26. Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters
27. Ruth Hill, Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains
28. Yates, Francis, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
29. Carl Jung, Alchemical Studies
30. Joyce Chaplin, Subject Matter