sented by a dearth of textual sources by and about Esteban does not have to hinder these efforts. He attempts to marshal context fromwhat little was written about Esteban, which brings an array of subjects before the reader, including race and the association of skin color with terms used to describe the man, including black and moor, but without providing any critical apparatus, in this case, from the fields of race and black studies, to properly flesh out the significance of a black, possibly Muslim, participant in the Spanish invasion. A curious component of this book is a prefatory chapter, “Notes for the Modern Reader,” in which the author explains sixteenth-century spelling and naming conventions, as well as their interpretations by non-Spaniards over the centuries, particularly because the target readership for this book, which is published by a university press, should be scholars who already possess knowledge about the Narváez and Cabeza de Vaca expedition, and thus recognize Esteban’s name from the historiography. The book in this way seems more suitable for a non-specialist and perhaps general audience, rather than for historians knowledgeable of this period and who possess the language expertise to access a broader array of sources. The book also contains information that distracts from its central purpose. For instance, several pages detail the activities of Columbus and Las Casas in the Americas (pp. 21–27), presumably for a reader unfamiliar with the period. Several chapters also document the Spanish expedition without shedding any new light on the experiences of Esteban or even those of the Indigenous peoples who interacted with the invaders. Another clue that this work is destined for general audiences is the prose, which impacts the experience of reading the book, as there are many one-sentence paragraphs and much outdated language (such as “Negroes,” p. 10) that sometimes weaken the thrust of the arguments. Furthermore, the work relies upon multifarious sources ranging from email communications and interviews, peer-reviewed and unreviewed publications, as well as newspapers and popular culture. My comments should thus be contextualized in this light, as our readers will have been expecting a more scholarly and critical framing for this book and its subject matter. In my case, I also was hoping to encounter new archival materials as well as non-textual sources that would yield new information about the experiences of Esteban and others like him.

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思想之旅：在 16 世纪世界中导航知识

Esteban 缺乏文本来源发送的消息并不妨碍这些努力。他试图从关于埃斯特班的鲜为人知的文章中整理上下文，这将一系列主题呈现在读者面前，包括种族和肤色与用来描述这个人的术语的关联，包括黑色和沼泽，但没有提供任何批判性的工具，在这种情况下，从种族和黑人研究的领域，适当地充实一个黑人，可能是穆斯林，参与西班牙入侵的重要性。本书一个奇怪的部分是序言章节“现代读者须知”，其中作者解释了 16 世纪的拼写和命名约定，以及几个世纪以来非西班牙人对它们的解释，特别是因为目标读者对于这本书，由大学出版社出版的，应该是已经了解纳瓦埃斯和卡贝萨德瓦卡探险的学者，从而从史学中认出埃斯特班的名字。这样的书似乎更适合非专业人士甚至普通读者，而不是了解这一时期并拥有语言专业知识以访问更广泛资源的历史学家。这本书还包含分散其中心目的的信息。例如，有几页详细介绍了哥伦布和拉斯卡萨斯在美洲的活动（第 21-27 页），可能是为不熟悉那个时期的读者准备的。几章还记录了西班牙的远征，但没有对埃斯特班的经历或什至与入侵者互动的土著人民的经历有任何新的了解。这部作品面向普通读者的另一个线索是散文，它会影响阅读体验，因为有许多单句段落和许多过时的语言（例如“黑人”，第 10 页）有时会削弱阅读体验。论据的主旨。此外，这项工作依赖于各种来源，包括电子邮件通信和采访、同行评审和未经评审的出版物，以及报纸和流行文化。因此，我的评论应该从这个角度出发，因为我们的读者一直期待本书及其主题有一个更具学术性和批判性的框架。就我而言，我还希望遇到新的档案材料以及非文本来源，以产生有关 Esteban 和其他像他这样的人的经历的新信息。