Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas PDF full book. Access full book title Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas by Nina Gerassi-Navarro. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas PDF Author: Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319615068
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Get Book Here

Book Description
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.