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Title Tropical visions in an age of empire / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
Summary This volume of 11 illustrated essays from a wide range of disciplines explores images of the tropical world - paintings, maps, botanical drawings, diagrams, texts and photographs - produced by European and American travellers over the past three centuries.
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Subject Tropics -- Description and travel.
Tropics.
Europeans -- Travel -- Tropics.
Europeans -- Travel.
Europeans.
Travelers' writings, European.
Travelers' writings, European.
Scientific expeditions -- Tropics.
Scientific expeditions.
Tropics -- In art.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1700-1950
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
Electronic books.
Art.
Added Author Driver, Felix.
Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-
Other Form: Print version: Tropical visions in an age of empire. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005 0226164713 (DLC) 2005001424 (OCoLC)57465574
ISBN 9780226164700 (electronic book)
0226164705 (electronic book)
0226164713
9780226164717
0226164721
9780226164724