ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT AND THE AMERICAS

Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas
 

AUTOR/-A: 

KUTZINSKI, VERA M. (ed.)
ETTE, OTTMAR (ed.)
WALLS, LAURA DASSOW (ed.)

EDITORIAL: 

EDITION TRANVíA - VERLAG WALTER FREY

COLECCIÓN: 

POTSDAMER INTER- UND TRANSKULTURELLE TEXTE (POINTE) ; 3

ISBN: 

9783938944639

EDICIÓN: 

1

DESCR. FÍSICA: 

295 p. il. 21 cm

FECHA PUBL.: 

01-01-2012

IDIOMA: 

eng 
$ 34.00

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If Alexander von Humboldt’s writings opened up exciting cultural spaces in his time, they can certainly do so again in our own day. As the twenty-first century addresses the problems of intercultural violence, environmental devastation, social justice, and global climate change, the tools and perspectives Humboldt developed and popularized may offer useful resources to meet challenges that he himself already foresaw.
In Humboldt’s spirit, the aim of this collection of essays and translations is to foreground the importance of multiple vantage points. Part I encompasses a collection of eight essays, each from a different disciplinary location (be it cultural history, literary studies, or anthropology) and in relation to diverse geographies in the Americas (Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the USA). Part II is a collection of eight excerpts from Humboldt’s diary entries and letters originally written in French and German during his travels through the Americas (1799-1804). They appear here in English for the first time.
 
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