While everyone has heard of the 'Humboldt Current', few know anything of the man after whom it was named. Yet Alexander von Humboldt was a towering figure of his time - scientist, explorer, and polymath, imbued with Enlightenment ideas. Aaron Sachs' colourful intellectual history rescues Humboldt from obscurity, and reveals the impact of a single European on both American thought and the environmental movement.
While everyone has heard of the 'Humboldt Current', few know anything of the man after whom it was named. Yet Alexander von Humboldt was a towering figure of his time - scientist, explorer, and polymath, imbued with Enlightenment ideas. Aaron Sachs' colourful intellectual history rescues Humboldt from obscurity, and reveals the impact of a single European on both American thought and the environmental movement.
Aaron Sachs is Assistant Professor of Intellectual History at Cornell University.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: Humboldt in America: 1804-2004 The Chain of Connection Excursion-Exile: Napoleon's France Part One - East Humboldt and the Influence of Europe Personal Narrative of a Journey: Radical Romanticism Cosmos: Unification Ecology Excursion-Eureka: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe Part Two- South J. N. Reynolds and the "More Comprehensive Promise" of the Antarctic "Rough Notes of Rough Adventures": Exploration for Exploration's Sake "Mocha-Dick": The Value of Mental Expansion Excursion-Watersheds: 1859-1862 Part Three - West Clarence King's Experience of the Frontier Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: The Art of Self-Exposure "Catastrophism and the Evolution of Environment": A Science of Humility Excursion-Yreka: Just North of Mount Shasta Part Four - North George Wallace Melville and John Muir in Extremis In the Lena Delta: Arctic Tragedy and American Imperialism The Cruise of the Corwin: Nature, Natives, Nation Excursion-Home: The Harriman Expedition The Grounding of American Environmentalism Epilogue: Humboldt on Chimborazo Chronology Notes Bibliography Index
Prologue: Humboldt in America: 1804-2004 The Chain of Connection Excursion-Exile: Napoleon's France Part One - East Humboldt and the Influence of Europe Personal Narrative of a Journey: Radical Romanticism Cosmos: Unification Ecology Excursion-Eureka: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe Part Two- South J. N. Reynolds and the "More Comprehensive Promise" of the Antarctic "Rough Notes of Rough Adventures": Exploration for Exploration's Sake "Mocha-Dick": The Value of Mental Expansion Excursion-Watersheds: 1859-1862 Part Three - West Clarence King's Experience of the Frontier Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: The Art of Self-Exposure "Catastrophism and the Evolution of Environment": A Science of Humility Excursion-Yreka: Just North of Mount Shasta Part Four - North George Wallace Melville and John Muir in Extremis In the Lena Delta: Arctic Tragedy and American Imperialism The Cruise of the Corwin: Nature, Natives, Nation Excursion-Home: The Harriman Expedition The Grounding of American Environmentalism Epilogue: Humboldt on Chimborazo Chronology Notes Bibliography Index
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