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Author : Jesús Tortoza Acevedo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105555569
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Humboldt y Bonpland written by Jesús Tortoza Acevedo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera M Kutzinski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317977505
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae written by Vera M Kutzinski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and proto-sociologist--to name just some of the fields to which he contributed--, Humboldt is impossible to contain in a single identity or definition. His voluminous writings range across so many different fields of knowledge that his scholarly-scientific personae multiplied even during his lifetime, and they have continued to proliferate since his death in 1859. A household word throughout the nineteenth century, Humboldt was eventually eclipsed by Charles Darwin (whose own travels had been motivated by Humboldt’s) and disappeared from view for much of the twentieth century, notably in the United States. The essays in this collection testify to the renewed interest that Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-faceted work is inspiring in the twenty-first century, especially among cultural and literary historians from both sides of the Atlantic. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
Author : Mark Thurner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000814505
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Humboldt written by Mark Thurner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron’s epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary ‘adventurer’ and ‘hero of science’ surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron’s opus and practice was largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge and practice, in truth Humboldt did not ‘invent nature,’ nor did he pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering, ‘postcolonial’ cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and the global history of science and knowledge.
Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200807
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021
Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804774277
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Life in Shadow written by Stephen Bell and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johannes Wilbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057904
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Tobacco and Shamanism in South America written by Johannes Wilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of magic-religious, medicinal and recreational tobacco use among nearly 300 native South American societies. Wilbert found that South American Indians use tobacco in many ways and that a close functional relation exists between tobacco and shamanism.
Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009723
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)
Download or read book 44 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas written by John Lynch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Pan American Book Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804 by Alexander Von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland Written in French by Alexander Von Humboldt written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susana Léon-Yánez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador written by Susana Léon-Yánez and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Late Porter C. Bliss ... Including His Very Rare Collection of Spanish Americana and Mexicana Gathered by Him While Holding United States Diplomatic Positions in Mexico, Paraguay, and Elsewhere in Central and South America written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343784
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions.
Author : Nadia Altschul
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226016218
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Geographies of Philological Knowledge written by Nadia Altschul and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the 19th-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative 'The Poem of the Cid'.
Author : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598845705
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Venezuela written by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of Venezuelan history, culture, and politics is designed to ground the high school student's knowledge of the crucial role of the nation on the international scene. Venezuela stands out as one of Latin America's most influential, yet controversial countries, leading students to want to know more about the nation and its outspoken president. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to ground an understanding of the contemporary nation, Venezuela provides the reader with an overview of the Venezuelan story from 1499 to the present. The study provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of life in this South American powerhouse, discussing the nation's geography, history, government and politics, economy, society, and culture. Specific attention is directed to topics such as industry, labor, religion, ethnicity, women, etiquette, literature, art, music, and food, among many others. In addition, the book examines the controversy surrounding Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez. Written in an accessible and engaging tone, this volume is ideal for high school and undergraduate students—and essential for library shelves.
Author : David L. Gold
Publisher : Universidad de Alicante
ISBN 13 : 8479085177
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Studies in Etymology and Etiology written by David L. Gold and published by Universidad de Alicante. This book was released on 2009 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries usually give only brief treatment to etymologies and even etymological dictionaries often do not lavish on them the attention which many deserve. To help fill the gap, the author deals in depth with several etymologically problematic words in various Germanic, Jewish, Romance, and Slavic languages, all of which have hitherto either been misetymologized or not etymologized at all. Sometimes, he succeeds in cracking the nut. Sometimes, he is able only to clear away misunderstanding and set the stage for further treatment. Usually, he marshals not only linguistic but also historical and cultural information. Since this book also discusses methodology, it has the makings of an introduction to the science, art, and craft of etymology. David L. Gold is the founder of the Jewish Name and Family Name File, the Jewish English Archives, and the Association for the Study of Jewish Languages, as well as the editor of Jewish Language Review and Jewish Linguistic Studies.
