TY - JOUR
AU - Lankford, Kelly L.
AB - Book Reviews 301 “ecological” insights to forge the beginnings position, let alone a shared legacy from Hum- of environmentalism. u Th s we begin with a boldt, from a composite of those four men. tall agenda, which Sachs works through by Even more alarming is the ahistorical ren- identifying Humboldt with ecology and en- dering of nineteenth-century science in the vironmental thinking, by locating several book. Although Sachs acknowledges that the American “Humboldtians,” and by describing word “ecology” was not coined until 1866, he several explorations that had little or no con- still describes Humboldt as the “first ecologist” nection to imperialism or empire. (p. 2), and he associates Humboldt with terms Fittingly, Humboldt Current opens by con- such as ecological thinking, social ecology, and necting Humboldt, ecology, and environmen- ecosystems. But he fails to refer to the physi- talism; but this presents a set of problems to ognomic features Humboldt described, par- the reader. Sachs does not define his terms, ticularly in South America. That notion led to which include Humboldtian ecology (p. 21), studies of community structure both in Europe “Humboldt’s efforts to see new things clearly” and the United States, marking the actual, but (p. 49), 
TI - The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/25094876
DA - 2007-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-coldest-crucible-arctic-exploration-and-american-culture-w2LzotgdHz
SP - 301
EP - 302
VL - 94
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -