The tropics and the traveling gaze : India, landscape, and science, 1800-1856 /

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"The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arnold, David, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2006.
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Human ecology > India > History > 19th century.
Europeans > Travel > India > History > 19th century.
Travelers' writings, European > History and criticism.
Colonialism > history
Européens > Voyages > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrits de voyageurs européens > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Colonization.
Europeans > Travel.
Human ecology.
Travel.
Travelers' writings, European.
India > Colonization > History > 19th century.
India > Description and travel.
Inde > Descriptions et voyages.
India.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Itinerant empire
  • 2. In a land of death
  • 3. Romanticism and improvement
  • 4. From the Orient to the tropics
  • 5. Networks and knowledges
  • 6. Botany and the bounds of empire.

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