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19 - Humboldt’s exploration at a distance

from III - Publics and empires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

By
Sandra Rebok
Edited by
Helen Anne Curry ,
Nicholas Jardine ,
James Andrew Secord  and
Emma C. Spary
Helen Anne Curry
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Worlds of Natural History , pp. 319 - 334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Brescius, M. von, ‘Connecting the New World: nets, mobility and progress in the age of Alexander von Humboldt’, Humboldt im Netz, XIII:25 (2012), pp. 11‒33, available online at www.uni-potsdam.de/romanistik/hin/hin25/brescius.htm.Google Scholar
Crampton, G. C., ‘Humboldt’s Utah, 1811’, Utah Historical Quarterly, 26 (July 1958), pp. 269‒81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goetzmann, W. H., New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery (New York, 1986).Google Scholar
Lange, A. J., ‘The Humboldt connection’, We Proceeded On, 16:4 (November 1990), pp. 4‒12.Google Scholar
Mathewson, K., ‘Alexander von Humboldt’s image and influence in North American geography, 1804‒2004’, Geographical Review, 96:3 (2006), pp. 416‒38.Google Scholar
Rebok, S., Jefferson and Humboldt: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment (Charlottesville, 2014).Google Scholar
Sachs, A., The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York, 2006).Google Scholar
Sherwood, R., The Cartography of Alexander von Humboldt: Images of the Enlightenment in America (Saarbrücken, 2008).Google Scholar
Walls, L. D., The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (Chicago, 2009).Google Scholar
Wulf, A., The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (New York, 2015).Google Scholar

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