The Invention Of Humboldt (Routledge Studies In Global Latin America)

The Apotheosis of Humboldt during the Nineteenth Century / Leoncio López-Ocón -- A Sense of Place: Early Modern Roots of Humboldt's Natural History Practices / Florike Egmond -- Six Days on Tenerife: The Making of Humboldt's Tropical Antique / Peter Mason -- Caldas and Humboldt in the Andes: Who Invented Biogeography? / Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez -- An Archaeology of Mutis' Disappearing Gift to Humboldt / José Antonio Amaya -- Incas, Pyramids and Amazons: Notes on Humboldt's Equatorial Encounters / Neil Safier -- Humboldt's Magic Mountain / Juan Pimentel -- Peruvian Desencuentro: Humboldt's Fog, Unanue's Light / Mark Thurner -- Air in a Flask: The Mexican Making of Humboldt's Objects of Knowledge / Miruna Achim and Gabriela Goldin Marcovich -- Humboldt's Misreading of the Mercantilist Face of New Spain / José Enrique Covarrubias -- Bonpland's Cactus, Or Trafficking in Exotics and Ignorance / Irina Podgorny -- Humboldt's Columbus, Or the Iberian Worlds that Humboldt Ignored / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.

• | Author: Mark Thurner, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 28, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 342 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1032139161
• | ISBN-13: 9781032139166