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Tropical visions in an age of empire /
This volume of 11 illustrated essays from a wide range of disciplines explores images of the tropical world - paintings, maps, botanical drawings, diagrams, texts and photographs - produced by European and American travellers over the past three centuries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins
- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi
- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach
- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver
- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme
- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver
- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. Graham Burnett
- Envisioning the tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 / David Arnold
- Eyeing Samoa: people, places, and spaces in photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonard Bell
- Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis / Rod Edmond
- Tropic and tropicality / Denis Cosgrove.