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The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early nineteenth-century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba is a physical and cultural study of the island nation. In it, Humboldt denounces colonial slavery on both moral...
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Vera M. Kutzinski is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English, professor of comparative literature, and director of the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) project at Vanderbilt University. Ottmar Ette is chair of romance literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and the author of many books on Humboldt.
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“This latest translation by Kutzinski and Ette brings Humboldt, the man, to a new level of understanding. The authors show Humboldt as a humanist who shows emotions and display strong opinions about certain issues of social importance, such as his disdain for slavery. Furthermore, Humboldt dared to contradict the publications of many of his predecessors and contemporaries who wrote without ever setting foot in the New World. It is precisely...
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0226465675
- ISBN 13 9780226465678
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages496
- EditorKutzinski Vera M., Ette Ottmar
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