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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction An Insufficient Enlightenment? 1 Chapter One Domesticating Conquest José de Oviedo y Baños’s Historia de la conquista y población de la provincia de Venezuela (1723) 11 Chapter Two Domesticating Indians Juan Ignacio Molina’s Compendio de la historia civil del reyno de Chile (1795) 49 Chapter Three Domesticating Nature Félix de Azara’s Viajes por la América meridional and Other Writings 84 Chapter Four Domesticating God Catalina de Jesús Herrera’s Secretos entre el alma y Dios (1758–1760) 114 viii Chapter Five Domesticating Gold José Martín Félix de Arrate’s Llave del Nuevo Mundo (1761) 145 Conclusion Unfinished Projects, Recuperated Remains 175 Notes 179 Bibliography 237 Index 271 ...

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