The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge - Paperbackby Mark Thurner (Editor), Jorge Caizares Esguerra (Editor) The Invention of Humboldt is a game changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in Humboldt's footsteps, ' this book outlines the new critical horizon of post Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron's epistemological footprint. Contrary