Bildner Center, 2004
Raymond Erickson, Mauricio Font, and Brian Schwartz, eds.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Front Matter

Part I: CANTATA

Humboldt, Mendelssohnm, and Musical Unity – R. Larry Todd

Willkommen! – Text by Ludwig Rellstab

Part II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE NEW WORLD

Faith and the Conquest – José Gabriel Brauchy

Humboldt en la Nueva España – Jaime Labastida

A ‘Romantic’ Encounter with Latin America – Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert

La Arquitectura Inca – César W. Astuhuamán Gonzáles

Arrogance and Squalor? Lima’s Elite – Paul Rizo-Patrón

The National Imagination in New Granada – Margarita Serje

Entre Caos y Cosmos – Odette Casamayor Cisneros

The Scientist and the Patrician: Reformism in Cuba – Alfonso W. Quiroz

Celebrity in American Society and Science – Michael F. Conlin

Part III: LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Landscape Painting Between Art and Science – Claudio Mattos

New Sites and Sounds – Adrienne Klein

Humboldt and the Visual Arts in America – Amy H. Winter

Women Travelers in Humboldt’s New World – Adriana Méndez Rodenas

Classic Nomenclature in New Exploration – Donald Hassler

Palabras y Pinceles del Paisaje Venezolano – José Ángel Rodriguez

Análisis Contrastivo del ‘Ensayo Politico’ – María-Rosario Martí Marco

Threats to the European Subject – Jason H. Lindquist

Configuraciones de lo real maravilloso – Rocío Oviedo

The Birth of the Two Cultures – Laura Dassow Walls

Científico, y Poeta – Luisa V. De Castillo

Part IV: LIFE AND TRAVELS

A French Perspective – Pierre Laszlo

Maler, Legacy and Mexico – Claudine Leysinger

Una Mirada Recíproca – Sandra Rebok

Recording Civilization – Georgia de Havenon

Witkiewicz and the Course of Mid-Eastern History – Daniel Gerould

Influencia en los artículos de Bello – Alister Ramírez Márquez

A Humboldtian Explorer in New York – Aaron Sachs

Influences of ‘Kosmos’ in ‘Earth and Man’ – Philip K. Wilson

Part V: KNOWLEDGE AND WORLDVIEW

Rousseau’s Anticipation of Plant Geography – Alexandra Cook

A German Minerologist Visits Peru – Scarlett O’Phelan Godoy

Mexican Reception of ‘Political Essay’ – Richard Weiner

The Mexican Mining Bubble that Burst – Ivani Vasselor

Writing In and Out of Time – Ann C. Colley

Scientific Instruments in ‘Cartas Americanas’ – Dietland Muller-Schwarze

Ancient and Modern Forms of Slavery – Irene Prüfer Leske

Gradations of Suffering and Privation – Evelyn Powell Jennings

Speaking of Nature – David Kenosian

Hershel, Humboldt and Imperial Science – Christopher Carter

Writing Science – Renata Schellenberg

Afectos Científicos Italianos – Marisa Vannini de Gerulewicz