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"Géographes naturalistes et penseurs éthiques, politiques, tels sont Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau et Élisée Reclus en leurs essais, qu'il faut relire comme littéraires. Alors que le XXe siècle broie l'inconnu et le sauvage, ils cherchent à connaître la Terre et les hommes comme un tout sans que l'universel n'écrase individus et singularités. Luttant contre les oppressions qu'ils documentent, ils pluralisent des sciences écrites pour tous sans que la spécialisation n'impose de séparer les premières en disciplines et les seconds en classes. Préfigurant une écologie alternative qui reste encore inouïe, cette tentative d'une autre modernité choisit l'essai qui ne divise ni ne simplifie le monde. Nommée cosmos, elle mérite plus que jamais notre attention."--Page 4 of cover.

Cosmologie --- Cosmology --- Cosmology --- Geography --- Geography --- Géographie --- Human ecology --- Human ecology --- Naturalism --- Naturalism. --- Naturalisme --- Naturalismus. --- Naturphilosophie. --- Philosophie de la nature --- Philosophy of nature --- Philosophy of nature. --- Sozialökologie. --- Weltbild. --- Écologie humaine --- Histoire --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophy. --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire --- History --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Reclus, Elisée, --- Reclus, Elisée, --- Reclus, Élisée, --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- 1800-1899.

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This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.

Literature --- History of Latin America --- postkolonialisme --- literatuur --- wereldliteratuur --- Homer --- Zeballos, Estanislao Severo --- da Cunha, Euclides --- Olmedo, José Joaquín --- Humboldt, von, Alexander --- Reclus, Elisée --- anno 1900-1999