Tropical visions in an age of empire / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins.

Other author Driver, Felix.
Other author Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionxii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Europeans--Travel. --Tropics.
Travelers' writings, European.
Scientific expeditions--Tropics.
Tropics--Description and travel.
Tropics--In art.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005001424
ISBN0226164713 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226164721 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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