Sachs, Aaron (Author)
Description Argues that Humboldt had significant impact on American science and views of nature (including literary ones); focuses on four American explorer-naturalists: J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace Melville, and John Muir.
Review Conway, Erik M. (2008) Review of "The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 398).
Review Newman, Lance (2007) Review of "The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism". American Historical Review (p. 1141).
Review Benson, Keith R. (2007) Review of "The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism". Journal of American History (p. 300).
Review Evans, Sterling (2008) Review of "The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism". Environmental History (p. 176).
Review Stewart, Mart A. (2008) Review of "The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 859).
Essay Review Dunlap, Thomas R. (2007) Is Half a Humboldt Better Than None? Numbers and Wisdom in Natural History. Reviews in American History (pp. 225-231).
Thesis
Sachs, Aaron Jacob;
(2004)
The Humboldt Current: Avant-Garde Exploration and Environmental Thought in 19th-Century America
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Article
Felix Lüttge;
(2019)
Whaling Intelligence: News, Facts and US-American Exploration in the Pacific
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Book
Miller, Sally M.;
Morrison, Daryl;
(2005)
John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures
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Collomb, Jean-Daniel;
(2010)
Questioning the Empire of Science: John Muir's Epistemological Modesty
(/isis/citation/CBB001033306/)
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Philippon, Daniel J.;
(2004)
Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement
(/isis/citation/CBB000641687/)
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Miller, Sally M.;
(1999)
John Muir in historical perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB000110616/)
Book
Lewis, Michael L.;
(2007)
American Wilderness: A New History
(/isis/citation/CBB000930098/)
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Corbin, Devin DeWayne;
(2005)
The Work of Belonging: Agricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Restorationism in United States Environmental Literature
(/isis/citation/CBB001561894/)
Article
Azara, Francesca;
(2013)
The Maps of New Spain by Alexander Von Humboldt and Zebulon Montgomery Pike
(/isis/citation/CBB001251965/)
Chapter
Yayanos, A. Aristides;
(2002)
George Wallace Melville: His Influence Through Polar Exploration
(/isis/citation/CBB000202314/)
Article
Robinson, Michael F.;
(2009)
Why We Need a New History of Exploration: Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Explorer in American Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001022577/)
Article
Lundberg, Ann E.;
(2004)
“The Ruin of a Bygone Geological Empire”: Clarence King and the Place of the Primitive in the Evolution of American Identity
(/isis/citation/CBB000641812/)
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Herron, John P.;
(2010)
Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865--1965
(/isis/citation/CBB001251422/)
Article
Cohen, Geoff;
(2004)
“I hear the musketry of the Falls”: Systematic Geology, the Civil War, and Nation Building
(/isis/citation/CBB000641814/)
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Shane Patrick Avery;
(2019)
Popular Geography Writing in America, 1783–1888
(/isis/citation/CBB130772253/)
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Worster, Donald;
(2008)
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
(/isis/citation/CBB000951818/)
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Wilson, Robert;
(2006)
The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax---Clarence King in the Old West
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Moore, James G.;
(2006)
King of the 40th Parallel: Discovery in the American West
(/isis/citation/CBB000641589/)
Article
Aalto, K. R.;
(2004)
Clarence King's Geology
(/isis/citation/CBB000502281/)
Book
Muir, John;
(2002)
Travels in Alaska
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