Tropical visions in an age of empire

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Driver, Felix.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10431286
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245 0 0 |a Tropical visions in an age of empire  |c edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. 
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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. 
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650 0 |a Travelers' writings, European. 
650 0 |a Scientific expeditions  |z Tropics. 
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