The passage to Cosmos
Subtitle: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America
By: Laura Dassow Walls.
Publisher: London : The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780226871820
Subjects: Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859 -- Influence -- United States; Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859; Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859 -- Political and social views; Science -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Humboldt's bridge; title: Confluences; title: Humboldt's America; title: Humboldt's Europe; title: A new earth and a new heaven; title: Passage to America, 1799-1804; title: Portals and passages; title: The Casiquiare crossing; title: High peaks and hanging valleys; title: Manifest destinies; title: Humboldt's visit to the United States, 1804; title: The Humboldt network; title: The many faces of Humboldtian science; title: By land and by sea; title: Interchapter: finally shall come the poet; title: "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery; title: (De)constructing race; title: (Re)constructing race; title: Humboldt and American slavery; title: The community of cosmos; title: Franz Boas, cosmographer; title: Introducing Humboldt's cosmos; title: Behold the earth; title: The face of planet America; title: The apocalypse of mind: Emerson and Poe; title: The face of nature: Thoreau, Church, and Whitman; title: Dwelling: Susan Cooper, Muir, Marsh; title: Epilogue: recalling cosmos.