The tropics and the traveling gaze : India, landscape, and science, 1800-1856
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書誌事項
The tropics and the traveling gaze : India, landscape, and science, 1800-1856
(Culture, place, and nature)
University of Washington Press, c2006
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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