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FormatJournal Article
Title, AnalyticAlexander von Humboldt and North America
Journal TitleBulletin of the German Historical Institute
Date of PublicationFall 2004
Issue ID35
Location in Work200-206
ISSN1048-9134
AbstractReports on a conference that commemorated the three week visit to North America in 1804, where he was honored at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and met President Thomas Jefferson in Washington. Sessions at the conference concerned "Popular Culture, Politics, and Networks"; the role of Humboldtian ideas in mapping the North American continent; "Humboldt and the Habitability of Canada's Great Northwest"; "Humboldt, Exploration, and Environmental Thought in Nineteenth-Century America"; "Humboldt, Art, and Culture"; and an examination of Humboldt's view of Latin America in light of recent critiques of colonialism and imperialism.
NotesConference at the GHI, June 3-5, 2004
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsGermans/ Travel/ Science/ Geography/ 19th century