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BL
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1003888
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b758258
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Walls, Laura Dassow.
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| Title & Author
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The passage to Cosmos : : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America /\ Laura Dassow Walls.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0226871843
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0226871827
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9780226871820
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Manifest destinies -- Interchapter: Finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- The community of Cosmos -- The face of planet America -- Epilogue: recalling Cosmos.
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| Abstract
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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt'
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Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859-- Influence-- United States.
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Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859-- Political and social views.
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Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859., Kosmos.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
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Humboldt, Alexander von,1769-1859.
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Humboldt, Alexander{von.
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University of South Alabama
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Science-- History-- 19th century.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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Entstehung
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Forschungsreise
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life.
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Intellektuella-- Förenta staterna-- 1800-talet.
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NATURE-- Essays.
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NATURE-- Reference.
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Political and social views.
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Rezeption
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Science.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Ecotourism.
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Vetenskap-- historia-- Förenta staterna-- 1800-talet.
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Kosmos (Humboldt, Alexander von)
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Kosmos.
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United States, Intellectual life, 19th century.
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Amerika
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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508.092 B
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B
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| LC Classification
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Q143.H9D388 2009eb
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15.85bcl
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15.88bcl
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30.01bcl
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7,26ssgn
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AK 16700rvk
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