Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
12-2008
Abstract
Aaron Sachs’s impressive study of Alexander von Humboldt’s influence on nineteenth-century American explorer-scientists reexamines terrain long familiar to historians of science and of exploration. It also advances a post-postcolonial perspective on Humboldt’s influence in the United States that is ultimately an argument about the history of environmental thought and activism in America in general.
Publication Title
Isis
Volume
99
Issue
4
First Page
859
Last Page
860
Required Publisher's Statement
Copyright 2008 University of Chicago Press. The original published version may be found here.
Recommended Citation
Stewart, Mart A., "Review of: The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism" (2008). History Faculty and Staff Publications. 20.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/history_facpubs/20
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Scientists--Germany--Biography; Scientific expeditions--History--19th century
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob). The Humboldt current; Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Geographic Coverage
Germany
Genre/Form
reviews (documents)
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
