The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walls, Laura Dassow (autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Materias:
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Influencia > Estados Unidos
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Kosmos.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Visiones políticas y sociales
Ciencia > Historia > Siglo XIX
Estados Unidos > Vida intelectual > Siglo XIX
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Humboldt's bridge
  • Confluences
  • Humboldt's America
  • Humboldt's Europe
  • A new earth and a new heaven
  • Passage to America, 1799-1804
  • Portals and passages
  • The Casiquiare crossing
  • High peaks and hanging valleys
  • Manifest destinies
  • Humboldt's visit to the United States, 1804
  • The Humboldt network
  • The many faces of Humboldtian science
  • By land and by sea
  • Interchapter: finally shall come the poet
  • "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery
  • (De)constructing race
  • (Re)constructing race
  • Humboldt and American slavery
  • The community of cosmos
  • Franz Boas, cosmographer
  • Introducing Humboldt's cosmos
  • Behold the earth
  • The face of planet America
  • The apocalypse of mind: Emerson and Poe
  • The face of nature: Thoreau, Church, and Whitman
  • Dwelling: Susan Cooper, Muir, Marsh
  • Epilogue: recalling cosmos.

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