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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
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337 _aunmediated
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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.
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700 1 _aDriver, Felix,
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700 1 _aMartins, Luciana,
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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