Political essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
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書誌事項
Political essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
（Cambridge library collection, . Latin American studies）
Cambridge University Press, 2014
- v. 1 : pbk
- タイトル別名
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Essai politique sur le royoume de la Nouvelle Espagne
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : I. Riley, 1811
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. Several of his works were in the library aboard the Beagle, including the multi-volume Personal Narrative of Travels, two books on geology and Tableaux de la nature (all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Darwin's copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's Political Essay (originally published in French earlier that year) is inscribed 'Buenos Ayres', suggesting he acquired it there in 1832-3, without its accompanying atlas (forthcoming). Humboldt had spent a year in Mexico in 1803-4, and was struck by its 'civilization' as compared to regions of South America that he had visited earlier on his expedition. Volume 1 of his account contains a 'geographical introduction' and discussions of physical geography, agriculture, and the ethnic diversity, distribution and health of the population.
目次
- Preface
- Geographical introduction
- Book I. General Considerations on the Extent and Physical Aspect of the Kingdom of New Spain: 1. Extent of the Spanish possessions in America
- 2. Configuration of the coast
- 3. Physical aspect of the kingdom of New Spain compared with that of Europe and South America
- Book II. General Population of New Spain: 4. General enumeration in 1793
- 5. Maladies which periodically arrest the progress of population
- 6. Indians or indigenous Americans
- 7. Whites, Creoles and Europeans, Negroes, mixed casts
- Book III. Particular Statistical Account of the Intendancies of Which the Kingdom of New Spain is Composed, their Territorial Extent and Population: 8. Of the political division of the Mexican territory.
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