000 | 03247cam a22004934i 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
005 | 20221101185030.0 | ||
008 | 050215s2005 iluabf b 001 0 eng d | ||
010 | _a 2005001424 | ||
011 | _aBIB MATCHES WORLDCAT | ||
020 |
_a0226164713 _qcloth (alk. paper) |
||
020 |
_a9780226164717 _qcloth (alk. paper) |
||
020 |
_a0226164721 _qpbk. (alk. paper) |
||
020 |
_a9780226164724 _qpbk. (alk. paper) |
||
035 | _a(ATU)b11092646 | ||
035 | _a(OCoLC)57465574 | ||
035 | _a(DLC) 2005001424 | ||
040 |
_aDLC _beng _erda _dATU |
||
042 | _apcc | ||
043 |
_aw------ _ae------ _aaw----- _aae----- |
||
050 | 0 | 0 |
_aG905 _b.T75 2005 |
082 | 0 | 0 |
_a910.913 _222 |
245 | 0 | 0 |
_aTropical visions in an age of empire / _cedited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. |
264 | 1 |
_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2005. |
|
300 |
_axii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; _c24 cm |
||
336 |
_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
||
337 |
_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
||
338 |
_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier |
||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aViews 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. | |
520 | _aCovering 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. | ||
588 | _aMachine converted from AACR2 source record. | ||
650 | 0 |
_aEuropeans _xTravel _zTropics _9810751 |
|
650 | 0 |
_aTravelers' writings, European _9327443 |
|
650 | 0 |
_aScientific expeditions _zTropics _9676102 |
|
651 | 0 |
_aTropics _xDescription and travel _9785217 |
|
651 | 0 |
_aTropics _vIn art _9338592 |
|
700 | 1 |
_aDriver, Felix, _eeditor. _91057337 |
|
700 | 1 |
_aMartins, Luciana, _eeditor. |
|
856 | 4 | 2 |
_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2005001424-b.html |
907 |
_a.b11092646 _b10-12-20 _c27-10-15 |
||
942 | _cB | ||
945 |
_a910.913 TRO _g1 _iA397390B _j0 _lcmain _o- _p$94.37 _q- _r- _s- _t0 _u1 _v0 _w0 _x0 _y.i12391736 _z29-10-15 |
||
998 |
_a(2)b _a(2)c _b23-03-18 _cm _da _feng _gilu _h0 |
||
999 |
_c1165665 _d1165665 |