Tropical visions in an age of empire
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Chicago :
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2005.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10431286 |
Table of 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.