Replay: The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt - a podcast by Michael Robinson: historian of science and exploration

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra talks about Andrea Wulf’s book the 'The Invention of Nature' and how it divorces the explorer Alexander von Humboldt from the intellectual traditions of Central and South America. Cañizares-Esguerra is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
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