%0 Book
%T passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America
%A Walls, Laura Dassow
%D 2009
%I The Univ. of Chicago Press
%C Chicago [u.a.]
%@ 0226871827
%G English
%F 59093094X
%O Laura Dassow Walls
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Humboldt's America -- Humboldt's Europe -- A new earth and a new heaven -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Portals and passages -- The Casiquiare crossing -- High peaks and hanging valleys -- Manifest destinies -- Humboldt's visit to the United States, 1804 -- The Humboldt network -- The many faces of Humboldtian science -- By land and by sea -- Interchapter: finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- (De)constructing race -- (Re)constructing race -- Humboldt and American slavery -- The community of cosmos -- Franz Boas, cosmographer -- Introducing Humboldt's cosmos -- Behold the earth -- The face of planet America -- The apocalypse of mind: Emerson and Poe -- The face of nature: Thoreau, Church, and Whitman -- Dwelling: Susan Cooper, Muir, Marsh -- Epilogue: recalling cosmos
%L 508.092 B
%K Influence
%K United States
%K Political and social views
%K Science
%K History
%K Intellectual life
%K Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859InfluenceUnited States
%K Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859Kosmos
%K Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859Political and social views
%K ScienceHistory19th century
%K United StatesIntellectual life19th century
%9 Text