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Coral Empire : Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity /

Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Elias, Ann, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9781478004462