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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
. By Laura Dassow
Walls
. (Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 2009
. Pp. xv, 404. $35.00
.)Online ISSN: 1937-2213
Print ISSN: 0028-4866
© 2010 by The New England Quarterly
2010
The New England Quarterly (2010) 83 (3): 547–550.
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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. The New England Quarterly 2010; 83 (3): 547–550. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_r_00029
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