

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1533-6247|14|1|37-43
ISSN: 0003-1615
Source: The Americas, Vol.14, Iss.1, 1957-07, pp. : 37-43
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Abstract
For early North America and particularly its first creative writers (to 1831), William Robertson (1721–1793) seems to have been the chief source for all things pertaining to the Spanish in the New World. King’s chaplain, principal of the University of Edinburgh, and historiographer-royal of Scotland, Robertson achieved world-wide fame with his histories of Scotland, the reign of Charles V, and with
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