Resumen de The georacial past in the New World present
Antonio de Ulloa dwelt on geography and race in Noticias Americanas (1772), a trans-American natural history that dialogued with the Enlightenment scientific and religious genre, theories of the Earth. His demonstration of geological time and formation of the New World engaged with scientific elites and at once founded his theory of human differentiation—the formation of distinct peoples, or races, after Noah’s Flood. This georacial architecture, which correlated three distinct pre-Columbian peoples with three stages of human civilization, reflected European stadialism, and it would underpin scientific and literary discourses on race in Europe and the Americas from Romanticism onwards.
