Alexander Von Humboldt, Alexander Von Humboldt

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain

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Produktbeschreibung

The two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's account of Mexico, which Darwin later had with him aboard the Beagle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108077897
• ISBN-10: 1108077897
• Artikelnr.: 41609692

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Geographical introduction; Book I. General Considerations on the
Extent and Physical Aspect of the Kingdom of New Spain: 1. Extent of the
Spanish possessions in America; 2. Configuration of the coast; 3. Physical
aspect of the kingdom of New Spain compared with that of Europe and South
America; Book II. General Population of New Spain: 4. General enumeration
in 1793; 5. Maladies which periodically arrest the progress of population;
6. Indians or indigenous Americans; 7. Whites, Creoles and Europeans,
Negroes, mixed casts; Book III. Particular Statistical Account of the
Intendancies of Which the Kingdom of New Spain is Composed, their
Territorial Extent and Population: 8. Of the political division of the
Mexican territory.