The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and otherness, and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of envi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80094-3
- EAN: 9780295800943
- Produktnummer: 20514801
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'482 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 illus.
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David John Arnold
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