Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /

"With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics&quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tobin, Beth Fowkes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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.
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor
  • Tropical bounty, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic
  • Provisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners
  • Land, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India
  • Picturesque ruins, decaying empires, and British imperial character in Hodges's Travels in India
  • Seeing, writing, and revision : natural history discourse and Captain Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world
  • Domesticating the tropics : tropical flowerrs, botanical books, and the culture of collecting.
  • Epilogue : Decolonizing garden history.

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