Alexander von Humboldt: urbanismo y desolación. Perscepción de los espacios urbanos y de los espacios subocupados de la Venezuela profunda

• Autores: José Angel Rodríguez
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 41, 2004, págs. 199-222
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This article analyses the peculiarities of Alexander von Humboldt's writings on the territories of the "Capitanía General de Venezuela" in the late days of the Spanish Colonial regime. His fresh contributions on urban geography are examined, but also his views on the spaces of interior Venezuela, an area, which had been formed by several centuries of human occupation far more than Humboldt, insinuates. Special emphasis is contributed to the view that he had been victim of a betrayal by his informants in disregarding the general and particular problems of that society, clear evidence of the weakness of his analysis of human nature - a fact that no critical historian can ignore.