How to Write the History of the New World Krista E. Van Vleet The high-profile personalities involved

The high-profile personalities involved

By drawing on both the personal accounts of the young people and on evidence gained from interviewing teachers and care professionals

Simon Schama (Harvard University)

authoritative evaluation of the use of hypnosis in the courts

the Confessing Church

How to Write the History of the New World Krista E. Van Vleet The high-profile personalities involvedIn the 'dispute of the New World' many eighteenth and nineteenth century historians, naturalists, and moral philosophers from Europe and the Americas sought either to confirm or refute the views of the French naturalist Buffon, who had contended that the New World was in fact geologically new. This book maintains that 'dispute' was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should one reconstruct the history of the continent