Women, travel, and science in nineteenth-century Americas : the politics of observation / Nina Gerassi-Navarro.
2017
F1409 .G47 2017
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Title
Women, travel, and science in nineteenth-century Americas : the politics of observation / Nina Gerassi-Navarro.
ISBN
9783319615066 (electronic book)
3319615068 (electronic book)
331961505X
9783319615059
3319615068 (electronic book)
331961505X
9783319615059
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2017.
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English
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F1409 .G47 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.034
Summary
This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand his views on the tropics to include a social dimension to their observations on nature, culture, race, and progress in Brazil and Mexico. Highlighting the role of women as a new kind of observer as well as the complexity of connections between the United States and Latin America, Gerassi-Navarro interweaves science, politics, and aesthetics in new transnational frameworks.
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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