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1 online resource (xii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tropics -- Description and travel.
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Tropics. |
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Europeans -- Travel -- Tropics.
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Europeans -- Travel. |
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Europeans. |
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Travelers' writings, European.
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Travelers' writings, European. |
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Scientific expeditions -- Tropics.
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Scientific expeditions. |
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Tropics -- In art.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1700-1950 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Added Author |
Driver, Felix.
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Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-
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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) |
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0226164705 (electronic book) |
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0226164713 |
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9780226164717 |
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0226164721 |
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9780226164724 |
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