TY  - BOOK
AU  - Driver,Felix
AU  - Martins,Luciana
TI  - Tropical visions in an age of empire
SN  - 0226164713
AV  - G905 .T75 2005
U1  - 910.913 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Travel
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Travelers' writings, European
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - In art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index; 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
N2  - Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2005001424-b.html
ER  -