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1 online resource (292 pages)
ISBN:
9780226164700
Inhalt:
The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the Western geographical imagination. Caught between the demands of experience and representation, documentation and fantasy, travelers in the tropics have often treated tropical nature as a foil to the temperate, to all that is civilized, modest, and enlightened. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire explores images of the tropical world-maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts-produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume contains eleven beautifully illustrated essays-arranged in three sections devoted to voyages, mappings, and sites-that consider the ways that tropical places were encountered, experienced, and represented in visual form. Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Views and Visions of the Tropical World -- Voyages -- 2. "On the Spot" : Traveling Artists and the Iconographic Inventory of the World, 1769 - 1859 -- 3. The Stimulations of Travel: Humboldt's Physiological Construction of the Tropics -- 4. "The Struggle for Luxuriance" : William Burchell Collects Tropical Nature -- Mappings -- 5. Dominica and Tahiti : Tropical Islands Compared -- 6. Imagining the Tropical Colony : Henry Smeathman and the Termites of Sierra Leone -- 7. Matthew Fontaine Maury's "Sea of Fire" : Hydrography, Biogeography, and Providence in the Tropics -- Sites -- 8. Envisioning the Tropics : Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848 - 1850 -- 9. Eyeing Samoa : People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 10. Returning Fears : Tropical Diseases and the Metropolis -- Afterword -- 11. Tropic and Tropicality -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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ISBN 9780226164717
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226164717
Sprache:
Englisch
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