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

Englisch

Chicago [u.a.] : The Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009

XV, 404 S. : Ill., Kt.

Literaturverz. S. [371] - 389

0-226-87182-7, 978-0-226-87182-0*cloth : alk. paper

Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Humboldt's America -- Humboldt's Europe -- A new earth and a new heaven -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Portals and passages -- The Casiquiare crossing -- High peaks and hanging valleys -- Manifest destinies -- Humboldt's visit to the United States, 1804 -- The Humboldt network -- The many faces of Humboldtian science -- By land and by sea -- Interchapter: finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- (De)constructing race -- (Re)constructing race -- Humboldt and American slavery -- The community of cosmos -- Franz Boas, cosmographer -- Introducing Humboldt's cosmos -- Behold the earth -- The face of planet America -- The apocalypse of mind: Emerson and Poe -- The face of nature: Thoreau, Church, and Whitman -- Dwelling: Susan Cooper, Muir, Marsh -- Epilogue: recalling cosmos.

*Humboldt, Alexander von *1769-1859*. Kosmos / Entstehung

*Humboldt, Alexander von -- 1769-1859 -- Influence -- United States ; Humboldt, Alexander von -- 1769-1859 -- Kosmos ; Humboldt, Alexander von -- 1769-1859 -- Political and social views ; Science -- History -- 19th century ; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: Q143.H9

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: [22] 508.092 ; B

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AK 16700 ; GK 4953

Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Humboldt's America -- Humboldt's Europe -- A new earth and a new heaven -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Portals and passages -- The Casiquiare crossing -- High peaks and hanging valleys -- Manifest destinies -- Humboldt's visit to the United States, 1804 -- The Humboldt network -- The many faces of Humboldtian science -- By land and by sea -- Interchapter: finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- (De)constructing race -- (Re)constructing race -- Humboldt and American slavery -- The community of cosmos -- Franz Boas, cosmographer -- Introducing Humboldt's cosmos -- Behold the earth -- The face of planet America -- The apocalypse of mind: Emerson and Poe -- The face of nature: Thoreau, Church, and Whitman -- Dwelling: Susan Cooper, Muir, Marsh -- Epilogue: recalling cosmos

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Derzeitiger Standort: Ethnologisches Museum

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