JONES HARVEY, Eleanor. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: art nature and culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 416-416
Author(s):  
C. H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Nature And Culture

scholarly journals CANIS LUPUS COSMOPOLIS: WOLVES IN A COSMOPOLITAN WORLDVIEW

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lynn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Canis Lupus ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northeastern Region ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThe subject of wolf recovery in North America sparks heated controversy, both for and against. This paper explores how this subject is informed by cosmopolitan worldviews. These worldviews pull nature and culture into a common orbit of ethical meaning, with implications for the normative relationships that ought to pertain in landscapes shared by people and wolves. This theoretical outlook is illustrated using the controversy over wolves in the northeastern region of the United States. I conclude with a set of reflections on theorizing the cosmopolis, the interpretation of cosmopolitan landscapes, and living with cosmopolitan wolves.

scholarly journals China: An Expatriates Discovery Of Culture And Customs

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
V. Joy Rose
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Teaching Experiences ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Individual Perspective

The purpose of this research paper is to share and uncover the differences between American and Chinese culture and customs. These revelations illustrate the culture and customs of various Chinese provinces and how they differ from those of the United States. Moreover, an analysis of etiquettes, business practices, the concept of face, and teaching experiences are provided. In conclusion, this paper will touch upon the experiences of an expatriate while teaching at a renowned Chinese university. The viewpoints are based on experiences and observations only and, in no way, reflect the nature and culture of China as a whole. The findings of this paper will also help Americans, either traveling or teaching overseas, to prepare themselves, and will enable the reader to form his or her own perception and draw conclusions from an individual perspective.

Francesco Modon: Colporteur and Evangelist at Rome, 1870

1966 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-445
Author(s):  
Duane Koenig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
City Gates ◽  
Saint Peter ◽  
Pius Ix ◽  
Pope Pius Ix ◽  
The City ◽  
Presbyterian Churches

Nineteenth century liberals constantly expressed dissatisfaction that non-Catholic worship was banned in Rome by the pontiffs. Traditionally, diplomats such as Prussians, Americans, and Russians, were allowed chapels of choice for themselves and their nationals, usually in legations or in licensed buildings outside the city gates. The fact that Pope Pius IX had removed to extra-mural quarters two Scottish Presbyterian churches and the false rumor that he threatened the American place of worship, played a role in causing the United States to cut off as of June 30, 1867, funds for its minister to the Vatican. A discreet Protestant cemetery containing the tombs of Shelley, Keats, and Alexander von Humboldt, cheek by jowl against the walls of Rome near the Porta San Paolo, is reminder that dissenters were not permitted to give scandal to the faithful by ostentatious religious ceremonies. The situation changed abruptly once the Patrimony of Saint Peter became part of Italy.

Finding a Point of Observation in the Global South: The C. L. Gerling and J.M. Gilliss Correspondence (1847–1856)

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-208
Author(s):  
Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda ◽  
Lorena B. Valderrama
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Observation Point ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Financial Uncertainty ◽  
Global North ◽  
Astronomical Research ◽  
Global Initiatives

Historians of science have amply demonstrated the transnational character of science; however, they have not sufficiently attended to how several scientific projects were coordinated as part of global initiatives. Our research – based on the unpublished, written correspondence between Christian Ludwig Gerling in Germany and James M. Gilliss in the United States, from 1847 to 1856 – examines the issues that were being discussed in the search for an observation point in Chile that could be linked to the various astronomical research projects happening in the global north. This article shows that the building of this network had to navigate communicational and language barriers, financial uncertainty, lack of adequate scientific instruments, and the influence of intermediaries. In fact, the intermediaries involved affected the formulation of questions and objectives, as well as the choice of methods and instruments to be used (such as Alexander von Humboldt and Friedrich Gauss), and directly impacted on how these things were brought to bear (for example, instrument manufacturers, diplomats, and translators).

The Musical Audubon: Ornithology and Nationalism in the Symphonies of Anthony Philip Heinrich

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-491
Author(s):  
WILLIAM GIBBONS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
The Andes ◽  
John James Audubon ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States ◽  
The U.S

AbstractAnthony Philip Heinrich's two symphonies on avian themes— The Ornithological Combat of Kings, or The Condor of the Andes and the Eagle of the Cordilleras (original version ca. 1835; final form 1857) and The Columbiad, or Migration of American Wild Passenger Pigeons (ca. 1857)—have not been generally considered among his nationalistic works. Placing these works into historical context, however, makes the nationalism of their programmatic content clear. These symphonies reveal surprising connections in the U.S. consciousness between birds and national identity in the nineteenth-century United States. Through the examination of this music in the contexts of naturalist writers such as Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, the last of whom was a close friend of Heinrich's, this article demonstrates the extent to which Heinrich's music tapped into the popularity of ornithology in the United States.

The Spanish-American Works of Alexander von Humboldt as Viewed By Leading British Periodicals, 1800–1830

1973 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin P. Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
German Scientist ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
Scientific Survey

Perhaps the most significant scientific works published about Spanish-America during the entire era 1800–1830 were the botanical and zoological findings of the German scientist, Alexander von Humboldt. He had traveled in the Spanish colonies from 1799 to 1804. Humboldt has been acclaimed as the greatest naturalist that the world had seen since Aristotle and as the foremost man in Europe during his lifetime with the exception of Napoleon. He had taken a scientific education in several German universities and had once held an appointment in Berlin as a mining official for the Prussian government. On his way back to Europe in 1804 at the conclusion of his scientific survey in Spanish-America, he stopped in the United States to visit President Thomas Jefferson who asked him to fix the new boundaries of the United States following the purchase of Louisiana. This side trip probably saved Humboldt’s life because the ship which sailed from South America with his specimens was lost at sea.

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