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The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single...

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Основен автор: Walls, Laura Dassow.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Influence > United States.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859. > Kosmos.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Political and social views.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859.
Kosmos (Humboldt, Alexander von)
1800-1899
Science > History > 19th century.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Political and social views.
Science.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
United States > .
Electronic books.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Passage to Cosmos.
Съдържание:
  • Prologue: Humboldt's bridge
  • Confluences
  • Passage to America, 1799-1804
  • Manifest destinies
  • Interchapter: Finally shall come the poet
  • "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery
  • The community of Cosmos
  • The face of planet America
  • Epilogue: recalling Cosmos.

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