Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Driver, Felix.
2. Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-

Description

1. xii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Subject

1. Scientific expeditions > Tropics
2. Europeans > Travel > Tropics
3. Travelers' writings, European
4. Tropics > Description and travel
5. Tropics > In art

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 05-12276

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.

Title

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

Imprint

1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.

Added author

1. Driver, Felix.
2. Martins, Luciana de Lima, 1963-

LCCN

1. 2005001424

ISBN

1. 0226164713 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0226164721 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 05-12276