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.
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.
Mark Thurner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, History and Humanities at FLACSO-Ecuador, and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Florida. He was Professor of Latin American Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, until the Institute's forced closure in 2021. He is the author of History's Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography (2011) amongst numerous other publications. He is the editor of The First Wave of Decolonization (Routledge, 2019). Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History in the Department of History, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (2006) amongst numerous other publications. He is editor of Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830 (2018).
Inhaltsangabe
1. The Apotheosis of Humboldt during the Nineteenth Century Leoncio López-Ocón 2. A Sense of Place: Early Modern Roots of Humboldt's Natural History Practices Florike Egmond 3. Six Days on Tenerife: The Making of Humboldt's Tropical Antique Peter Mason 4. Caldas and Humboldt in the Andes: Who Invented Biogeography? Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez 5. An Archaeology of Mutis' Disappearing Gift to Humboldt José Antonio Amaya 6. Incas, Pyramids, and Amazons: Notes on Humboldt's Equatorial Encounters Neil Safier 7. Humboldt's Magic Mountain Juan Pimentel 8. Peruvian Desencuentro: Humboldt's Fog, Unanue's Light Mark Thurner 9. Air in a Flask: The Mexican Making of Humboldt's Objects of Knowledge Miruna Achim and Gabriela Goldin Marcovich 10. Humboldt's Misreading of the Mercantilist Face of New Spain José Enrique Covarrubias 11. Bonpland's Cactus, Or Trafficking in Exotics and Ignorance Irina Podgorny 12. Humboldt's Columbus, Or the Iberian Worlds that Humboldt Ignored Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
1. The Apotheosis of Humboldt during the Nineteenth Century Leoncio López-Ocón 2. A Sense of Place: Early Modern Roots of Humboldt's Natural History Practices Florike Egmond 3. Six Days on Tenerife: The Making of Humboldt's Tropical Antique Peter Mason 4. Caldas and Humboldt in the Andes: Who Invented Biogeography? Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez 5. An Archaeology of Mutis' Disappearing Gift to Humboldt José Antonio Amaya 6. Incas, Pyramids, and Amazons: Notes on Humboldt's Equatorial Encounters Neil Safier 7. Humboldt's Magic Mountain Juan Pimentel 8. Peruvian Desencuentro: Humboldt's Fog, Unanue's Light Mark Thurner 9. Air in a Flask: The Mexican Making of Humboldt's Objects of Knowledge Miruna Achim and Gabriela Goldin Marcovich 10. Humboldt's Misreading of the Mercantilist Face of New Spain José Enrique Covarrubias 11. Bonpland's Cactus, Or Trafficking in Exotics and Ignorance Irina Podgorny 12. Humboldt's Columbus, Or the Iberian Worlds that Humboldt Ignored Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
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