Tropical visions in an age of empire
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Tropical visions in an age of empire |h [electronic resource] / |c edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. |
| 260 | |a Chicago : |b University of Chicago Press, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : |b ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Europeans |x Travel |z Tropics. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Travelers' writings, European. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Scientific expeditions |z Tropics. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Tropics |x Description and travel. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Tropics |v In art. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Driver, Felix. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Martins, Luciana de Lima, |d 1963- | |
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