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Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos

 

Table of Contents

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Front Matter

Part I: CANTATA

Humboldt, Mendelssohnm, and Musical Unity - R. Larry Todd

Willkommen! - Text by Ludwig Rellstab

Part II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE NEW WORLD

Faith and the Conquest - José Gabriel Brauchy

Humboldt en la Nueva España - Jaime Labastida

A 'Romantic' Encounter with Latin America - Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert

La Arquitectura Inca - César W. Astuhuamán Gonzáles

Arrogance and Squalor? Lima's Elite - Paul Rizo-Patrón

The National Imagination in New Granada - Margarita Serje

Entre Caos y Cosmos - Odette Casamayor Cisneros

The Scientist and the Patrician: Reformism in Cuba - Alfonso W. Quiroz

Celebrity in American Society and Science - Michael F. Conlin

Part III: LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Landscape Painting Between Art and Science - Claudio Mattos

New Sites and Sounds - Adrienne Klein

Humboldt and the Visual Arts in America - Amy H. Winter

Women Travelers in Humboldt's New World - Adriana Méndez Rodenas

Classic Nomenclature in New Exploration - Donald Hassler

Palabras y Pinceles del Paisaje Venezolano - José Ángel Rodriguez

Análisis Contrastivo del 'Ensayo Politico' - María-Rosario Martí Marco

Threats to the European Subject - Jason H. Lindquist

Configuraciones de lo real maravilloso - Rocío Oviedo

The Birth of the Two Cultures - Laura Dassow Walls

Científico, y Poeta - Luisa V. De Castillo

Part IV: LIFE AND TRAVELS

A French Perspective - Pierre Laszlo

Maler, Legacy and Mexico - Claudine Leysinger

Una Mirada Recíproca - Sandra Rebok

Recording Civilization - Georgia de Havenon

Witkiewicz and the Course of Mid-Eastern History - Daniel Gerould

Influencia en los artículos de Bello - Alister Ramírez Márquez

A Humboldtian Explorer in New York - Aaron Sachs

Influences of 'Kosmos' in 'Earth and Man' - Philip K. Wilson

Part V: KNOWLEDGE AND WORLDVIEW

Rousseau's Anticipation of Plant Geography - Alexandra Cook

A German Minerologist Visits Peru - Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy

Mexican Reception of 'Political Essay' - Richard Weiner

The Mexican Mining Bubble that Burst - Ivani Vasselor

Writing In and Out of Time - Ann C. Colley

Scientific Instruments in 'Cartas Americanas' - Dietland Muller-Schwarze

Ancient and Modern Forms of Slavery - Irene Prüfer Leske

Gradations of Suffering and Privation - Evelyn Powell Jennings

Speaking of Nature - David Kenosian

Hershel, Humboldt and Imperial Science - Christopher Carter

Writing Science - Renata Schellenberg

Afectos Científicos Italianos - Marisa Vannini de Gerulewicz

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