The invention of Humboldt : on the geopolitics of knowledge

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The invention of Humboldt : on the geopolitics of knowledge

edited by Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

(Routledge studies in global Latin America)

Routledge, 2023

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The apotheosis of Humboldt during the nineteenth century / Leoncio López-Ocón ; translated by Mark Thurner
  • 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's disappearing gift to Humboldt / José Antonio Amaya ; translated by Mark Thurner
  • Incas, Pyramids and Amazons : notes on Humboldt's equatorial encounters / Neil Safier
  • Humboldt's magic mountain / Juan Pimentel ; translated byPeter Mason
  • 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 ; translated by Mark Thurner
  • Bonpland's cactus, or trafficking in exotics and ignorance / Irina Podgorny
  • Humboldt's Columbus, or the Iberian worlds that Humboldt ignored / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

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