Colonizing Nature : the Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press 2004.
Temas:
1700-1899
English literature > History and criticism.
Gardening > History > 18th century.
Gardening > History > 19th century.
Gardening in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Nature in literature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Jardinage dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
British colonies.
English literature.
Gardening.
Literature.
Tropics > In literature.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Tropics > In art.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Tropics.
Electronic resource.
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor
  • Chapter 1 Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic
  • Chapter 2 Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners
  • Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India
  • Chapter 4 Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India.
  • Chapter 5 Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World
  • Chapter 6 Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting
  • Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z
  • Acknowledgments.

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