The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze : India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Arnold, David John/ Sivaramakrishnan, K. (EDT)

University of Washington Press（2006/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780295985817
• DDC分類 304.2095409034

Full Description

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Itinerant Empire

2. In a Land of Death

3. Romanticism and Improvement

4. From the Orient to the Tropics

5. Networks and Knowledges

6. Botany and the Bounds of Empire

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index