Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain Volume 1 A Critical 1st Edition by Alexander Von Humboldt, Ottmar Ette, Vera M. Kutzinski ISBN 978-0226651385 022665138X

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ISBN 10: 022665138X

ISBN 13: 978-0226651385

Author:  Alexander Von Humboldt,  Ottmar Ette, Vera M. Kutzinski 

Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1 and 2 of Humboldt’s Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827.
 
Alexander von Humboldt was the most celebrated modern chronicler of North and South America and the Caribbean, and this translation of his essay on New Spain—the first modern regional economic and political geography—covers his travels across today’s Mexico in 1803–1804. The work canvases natural-scientific and cultural-scientific objects alike, combining the results of fieldwork with archival research and expert testimony.
 
To show how people, plants, animals, goods, and ideas moved across the globe, Humboldt wrote in a variety of styles, bending and reshaping familiar writerly conventions to keep readers attentive to new inputs. Above all, he wanted his readers to be open-minded when confronted with cultural and other differences in the Americas. Fueled by his comparative global perspective on politics, economics, and science, he used his writing to support Latin American independence and condemn slavery and other forms of colonial exploitation. It is these voluminous and innovative writings on the New World that made Humboldt the undisputed father of modern geography, early American studies, transatlantic cultural history, and environmental studies.
 
This two-volume critical edition—the third installment in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series—is based on the full text, including all footnotes, tables, and maps, of the second, revised French edition of Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827, which has never been translated into English before. Extensive annotations and full-color atlases are available on the series website.

Table of contents: 

VOLUME 1 – Main Titles
Dedication

Editor’s Preface

Alexander von Humboldt’s Preface to the First Edition

A Reasoned Analysis of the Atlas of New Spain

Section I
A Condensed Map of the Kingdom of New Spain

Mexico City

Veracruz

Acapulco

The Road from Mexico City to Acapulco

The Route from Mexico City to Veracruz

Points Located between Mexico City, Guanajuato, and Valladolid

Old and New California; Provincias Internas

Section II
Map of New Spain and Its Bordering Countries to the North and to the East

Section III
Map of the Valley of Mexico City, Formerly Known as Tenochtitlan

Section IV
Map of the Projected Points of Communication between the Atlantic Ocean and the South Sea

Section V–XX and Supplemental Tables
A Condensed Map of the Road from Acapulco to Mexico City

Map of the Road from Mexico City to Durango

Map of the Road from Durango to Chihuahua

Map of the Road from Chihuahua to Santa Fe in New Mexico

Map of the Eastern Part of New Spain from the Plateau of Mexico City to the Shores of Veracruz

Map of Incorrect Positions

Map of the Port of Veracruz

Physical Tableau of the Eastern Slope of the Anahuac Plateau

Physical Tableau of the Western Slope of the Plateau of New Spain

Physical Tableau of the Central Plateau of the Cordillera of New Spain

Profile of the Canal of Huehuetoca

A Picturesque View of the Volcanoes of Mexico City and Puebla

Picturesque View of the Peak of Orizaba

Map of the Port of Acapulco

Map of the Various Routes by Which Precious Metals Flow from one Continent to Another

Figures Representing the Surface Area of New Spain and Its Intendancies, Advances in the Mining of Metals, and Other Subjects Relating to the European Colonies in the Two Indies

Tableau of Geographical Positions in the Kingdom of New Spain, Determined by Astronomical Observation

Tableau of the Most Remarkable Elevations Measured in the Interior of New Spain

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