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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Elias, Ann, 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Description
Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9781478004462