Cosmos and Colonialism - Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism (Hardcover)

Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse (1799-1804). He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge from two dozen domains. Today, he is at the center of debates on imperial discourse, postcolonialism, and globalization. This collection of fifty essays brings together a range of responses, many presented here for the first time in English. Authors from Schiller, Chateaubriand, Sarmiento, and Nietzsche, to Robert Musil, Kurt Tucholsky, Ernst Bloch, and Alejo Carpentier paint the historical background. Essays by contemporary travel writers and recent critics outline the current controversies on Humboldt. The source materials collected here will be indispensable to scholars of German, French, and Latin and North American literature as well as cultural and postcolonial studies, history, art history, and the history of science.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2012
Editors:	Rex Clark • Oliver Lubrich
Dimensions:	157 x 235 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-85745-266-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Geographical discovery & exploration
LSN:	0-85745-266-5
Barcode:	9780857452665

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