Tropical visions in an age of empire

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Співавтор: ebrary, Inc
Інші автори: Driver, Felix, Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-
Формат: Електронний ресурс eКнига
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Зміст:
  • 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.