TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walls, Laura Dassow
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2009//
TI  - passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America
PB  - The Univ. of Chicago Press
CY  - Chicago [u.a.]
KW  - Influence
KW  - United States
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859InfluenceUnited States
KW  - Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859Kosmos
KW  - Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859Political and social views
KW  - ScienceHistory19th century
KW  - United StatesIntellectual life19th century
AB  - 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
SN  - 0226871827
LA  - English
N1  - Laura Dassow Walls
ID  - 59093094X
ER  -