Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / Beth Fowkes Tobin.
Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / Beth Fowkes Tobin.
Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / Beth Fowkes Tobin.
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Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
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N820.93213/1
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xvi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Introduction : troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor -- 1. Tropical bountry, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic -- 2. Provisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners -- 3. Land, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India -- 4. Picturesque ruin...
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Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
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Pennsylvania
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c2005.
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"With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became central to the way in whic...
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Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / Beth Fowkes Tobin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
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c2005.
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N820.93213/1
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74VKqv6jbMwX
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0812238354 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812238358 (cloth : alk. paper)
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820.93213
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991020203799702626
