The invention of Humboldt on the geopolitics of knowledge
The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in Humboldt's footsteps' this book outlines the new critical horizon of 'post-Humboldti...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2023
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| Edición: | First published 2023 |
| Colección: | Routledge studies in global Latin America
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Apotheosis of Humboldt during the Nineteenth Century / Leoncio López-Ocón
- A Sense of Place: Early Modern Roots of Humboldt's Natural History Practices / Florike Egmond
- Six Days on Tenerife: The Making of Humboldt's Tropical Antique / Peter Mason
- Caldas and Humboldt in the Andes: Who Invented Biogeography? / Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez
- An Archaeology of Mutis' Disappearing Gift to Humboldt / José Antonio Amaya
- Incas, Pyramids and Amazons: Notes on Humboldt's Equatorial Encounters / Neil Safier
- Humboldt's Magic Mountain / Juan Pimentel
- Peruvian Desencuentro: Humboldt's Fog, Unanue's Light / Mark Thurner
- Air in a Flask: The Mexican Making of Humboldt's Objects of Knowledge / Miruna Achim and Gabriela Goldin Marcovich
- Humboldt's Misreading of the Mercantilist Face of New Spain / José Enrique Covarrubias
- Bonpland's Cactus, Or Trafficking in Exotics and Ignorance / Irina Podgorny
- Humboldt's Columbus, Or the Iberian Worlds that Humboldt Ignored / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
