Sachs

Humboldt Current C

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Produktbeschreibung

While everyone has heard of the 'Humboldt Current', few know anything of the man after whom it was named. Yet Alexander von Humboldt was a towering figure of his time - scientist, explorer, and polymath, imbued with Enlightenment ideas. Aaron Sachs' colourful intellectual history rescues Humboldt from obscurity, and reveals the impact of a single European on both American thought and the environmental movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 893g
• ISBN-13: 9780199215195
• ISBN-10: 0199215197
• Artikelnr.: 21578112

Autorenporträt

Aaron Sachs is Assistant Professor of Intellectual History at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Humboldt in America: 1804-2004
The Chain of Connection
Excursion-Exile: Napoleon's France
Part One - East
Humboldt and the Influence of Europe
Personal Narrative of a Journey: Radical Romanticism
Cosmos: Unification Ecology
Excursion-Eureka: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Part Two- South
J. N. Reynolds and the "More Comprehensive Promise" of the Antarctic
"Rough Notes of Rough Adventures": Exploration for Exploration's Sake
"Mocha-Dick": The Value of Mental Expansion
Excursion-Watersheds: 1859-1862
Part Three - West
Clarence King's Experience of the Frontier
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: The Art of Self-Exposure
"Catastrophism and the Evolution of Environment": A Science of Humility
Excursion-Yreka: Just North of Mount Shasta
Part Four - North
George Wallace Melville and John Muir in Extremis
In the Lena Delta: Arctic Tragedy and American Imperialism
The Cruise of the Corwin: Nature, Natives, Nation
Excursion-Home: The Harriman Expedition
The Grounding of American Environmentalism
Epilogue: Humboldt on Chimborazo
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index