UID:
almafu_9958352321102883
Format:
1 online resource (280 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812203684
Content:
How the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor --
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Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic --
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Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners --
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Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India --
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Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges’s Travels in India --
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Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook’s A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World --
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Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting --
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Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History --
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Notes --
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Select Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812203684
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203684
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203684
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