Humboldt, Alexander von (Author)
Kutzinski, Vera M. (Author)
Ette, Ottmar (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: xxvi + 519 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba is a physical and cultural study of the island nation. In it, Humboldt denounces colonial slavery on both moral and economic grounds and stresses the vital importance of improving intercultural relations throughout the Americas. Humboldt's most controversial book, Political Essay on the Island of Cuba was banned, censored, and willfully mistranslated to suppress Humboldt's strong antislavery sentiments. It reemerges here, newly translated from the original two-volume French edition, to introduce a new generation of readers to Humboldt's astonishing multiplicity of scientific and philosophical perspectives. In their critical introduction, Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette emphasize Humboldt's rare ability to combine scientific rigor with a global consciousness and a deeply felt philosophical humanism. The result is a work on Cuba of historical import that will attract historians of science as well as cultural historians, political scientists, and literary scholars
...MoreDescription The translation in this edition is based upon the full text of the Alexander von Humboldt's two-volume Essai politique sur l'île de Cuba from 1826.
Review Pruna-Goodgall, Pedro M. (2012) Review of "Political Essay on the Island of Cuba". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 799-800).
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