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Description of  The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge (Routledge Studies in Global Latin America)

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than follow in Humboldts footsteps, this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Barons epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary adventurer and hero of science surrounded by New World nature, Read more