Alexander von Humboldt : perceiving the world /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT -- Title -- Copyright -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL IMPACT -- 1 Indiana Reads Alexander von Humboldt -- 2 Alexander von Humboldt: Between Enlightenment Vitalism and Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3 Alexander von Humboldt and Peter Schlemihl: The Image of the Scientific Explorer in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature -- 4 The Meeting of Two Alexanders: Causes and Consequences of Humboldt's and Pushkin's Mutual Admiration -- PART II: ON NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT -- 5 Alexander von Humboldt's Environmental Holism…”
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Nature Translated : Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain / by Martin, Alison E.

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Political essay on the island of Cuba / by Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

Table of Contents: “…Inventories and Inventions: Alexander von Humboldt's Cuban Landscapes; 2. Note on the Text; 3. …”
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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things : Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China. by Schäfer, Dagmar

“…Alexander von Humboldt in English.…”
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Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / by Walls, Laura Dassow

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Los hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en Colombia : huellas históricas de la cooperación científica entre dos continentes /

Table of Contents: “…La investigación botánica en el viaje de Alexander von Humboldt y Aimé Bonpland / Santiago Díaz Piedrahita -- Alexander von Humboldt : ciencia y tecnología / Jorge Tomás Uribe Ángel -- Las orquídeas de Colombia en la obra de Humboldt, Bonpland y Kunth / Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso y Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez -- Del zograscopio al espacio vivencial : Alexander von Humboldt y los medios de viaje / Oliver Lubrich -- Las ocho láminas de Humboldt sobre Colombia en Vistas de las cordilleras y monumentos de los pueblos indígenas de América (1810) / Marta Herrera Ángel -- La relación entre naturaleza y espíritu en el Cosmos de Alexander von Humboldt / Marion Heinz -- ¿Autoformación por medio de una ciencia libre? …”
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Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages : Literature, Philosophy, Medicine /

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Times of history, times of nature : temporalization and the limits of modern knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Dividing times / Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström -- Stratigraphies of time and history : beyond the outrages upon humanity's self-love / Helge Jordheim -- The production and distribution of synchronized time in Sweden, 1850-1914 / Gustav Holmberg -- Environmental times : synchronizing human-earth temporalities from annales to anthropocene, 1920s-2020s / Sverker Sörlin -- Forest time and the passions of economic man / Julia Nordblad -- Little red ring binders : early red list temporalities / Marit Ruge Bjærke -- Oil and Vikings : temporal alignments within Norwegian petroleum fields / Lise Camilla Ruud -- Temporal poetics of planetary transformations : Alexander von Humboldt and the geo-anthropological history of the Americas / Adam Wickberg -- Discovering Moravian history : the many times and sources of an unknown land, 1830-1860 / Emma Hagström Molin -- Synchronizing nature and culture : mediating time in geochronology and dendrochronology, 1900-1945 / Staffan Bergwik -- On record : political temperature and the temporalities of climate change / Eric Paglia and Erik Isberg -- Model time and target years : on the end of time in IPCC futures / Nina Wormbs -- Encountering the geological live : temporalization in the age of natural media / Anders Ekström.…”

Times of history, times of nature : temporalization and the limits of modern knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Dividing times / Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström -- Stratigraphies of time and history : beyond the outrages upon humanity's self-love / Helge Jordheim -- The production and distribution of synchronized time in Sweden, 1850-1914 / Gustav Holmberg -- Environmental times : synchronizing human-earth temporalities from annales to anthropocene, 1920s-2020s / Sverker Sörlin -- Forest time and the passions of economic man / Julia Nordblad -- Little red ring binders : early red list temporalities / Marit Ruge Bjærke -- Oil and Vikings : temporal alignments within Norwegian petroleum fields / Lise Camilla Ruud -- Temporal poetics of planetary transformations : Alexander von Humboldt and the geo-anthropological history of the Americas / Adam Wickberg -- Discovering Moravian history : the many times and sources of an unknown land, 1830-1860 / Emma Hagström Molin -- Synchronizing nature and culture : mediating time in geochronology and dendrochronology, 1900-1945 / Staffan Bergwik -- On record : political temperature and the temporalities of climate change / Eric Paglia and Erik Isberg -- Model time and target years : on the end of time in IPCC futures / Nina Wormbs -- Encountering the geological live : temporalization in the age of natural media / Anders Ekström.…”
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Travel, travel writing, and British political economy : "instructions for travellers," circa 1750-1850 / by Cooper, Brian P. 1958-

The great ages of discovery : how western civilization learned about a wider world / by Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Something Old, Something New -- 5. Alexander von Humboldt Ascends the Heights -- 6. Crossing Continents -- 7. …”
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German culture in nineteenth-century America : reception, adaptation, transformation /

Table of Contents: “…Louis Hegelians and the question of American national identity / Matt Erlin -- Reading Alexander von Humboldt : cosmopolitan naturalist with an American spirit / Kirsten Belgum -- Nietzsche : socialist, anarchist, feminist / Robert C. …”
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German culture and the modern environmental imagination : narrating and depicting nature / by Wilke, Sabine, 1957-

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Connecting territories : exploring people and nature, 1700-1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, seen through Alexander von Humboldt's Views of Nature -- Jon Mathieu -- 10. …”
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Die Konstruktion des Kannibalen zwischen Fiktion und Realität. by Fink, Sebastian

Table of Contents: “…Iris Gareis: Von "grimmigen Menschenfressern" und "Edlen Wilden": Kannibalismus in frühen Reiseberichten aus Amerika zwischen Alteritätsdiskurs und KulturkritikFriedrich Pöhl: Der edle Wilde und der wilde Kannibale in den Jesuitenberichten aus Neufrankreich; Robert Rebitsch: Daniel Defoe, Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Adam Johann von Krusenstern und die Kannibalen: Schreckensgestalten der Neuen Welt; Ulrich Pallua: The Trope of Cannibalism in the Formation of Identity…”
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Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic world /

Table of Contents: “…Chmielewski -- Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington -- Alexander von Humboldt, his scientific expedition through the Americas and the impact of his Atlantic experiences / Sandra Rebok -- Part II. …”
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Heights of reflection : mountains in the German imagination from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Sullivan -- Spectacular scenery and slippery descents: narrating the mountains of tropical Polynesia / Sabine Wilke / Fascinating voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the myth of chimborazo / Oliver Lubrich -- From eros to Thanatos: hiking and spelunking in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg / Peter Arnds -- Geology, mountaineering, and self-formation in Adalbert Stifter's der Nachsommer / Sean Ireton -- "An apparition from Another World": the mountains of the moon and Kilimanjaro from the perspective of nineteenth-century Germany / Christof Hamann -- Leaving the summit behind: tracking biographical and philosophical pathways in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie / Peter Ḧöyng -- Elevation and insight: Thomas Mann's der Zauberberg -- Johannes Türk -- "Essence of the Alpine world is struggle": strategies of gesundung in Arnold Fanck's early mountain films -- Wilfried Wilms -- "Mountain of destiny": the filmic legacy of Nanga Parbat / Harald Höbusch -- Spatial orientation and embodied transcendence in Werner Herzog's mountain climbing films / Roger Cook -- W. …”
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La Güera Rodríguez : the life and legends of a Mexican independence heroine / by Arrom, Silvia Marina, 1949-

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A life in shadow : Aimé Bonpland in southern South America, 1817-1858 / by Bell, Stephen, 1956-

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Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) /

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