In the shadows of the tropics : climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon / by James S...
In the shadows of the tropics : climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon / by James S...
In the shadows of the tropics : climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon / by James S. Duncan.
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Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007.
Date
2007.
Call Numbers
N338.17373/ 7
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 211 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1 Introduction -- 2 The Rise of a Plantation Economy -- 3 Dark Thoughts: Reproducing Whiteness in the Tropics -- 4 The Quest to Discipline Estate Labour -- 5 The Medical Gaze and the Spaces of Biopower -- 6 Visualizing Crime in the Coffee Districts -- 7 Landscapes of Despair: The Last Years of Coffe...
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Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007.
Place of Publication
Vermont
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"This volume investigates the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island." "Using this case study by way of illustration, this book reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernit...
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In the shadows of the tropics : climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon / by James S. Duncan.
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Re-materialising cultural geography.
Re-materialising cultural geography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N338.17373/ 7
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74VK3Mwwwwgg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3Mwwwwgg
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ISBN
9780754672265 (alk. paper)
DDC
338.1737309549309034
MMS ID
991023707149702626
