The invention of Humboldt : on the geopolitics of knowledge /: on the geopolitics of knowledge. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.
• Editors: Thurner, Mark; Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 509.2; Natural history -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Latin America -- Historiography; Latin America -- Colonial influence; Travel -- Latin America; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000814507; 9781000814408
• Related ISBNs: 9781032139173; 9781032139166
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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