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100 1 $aTobin, Beth Fowkes.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93032123
245 10 $aColonizing nature :$bthe tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /$cBeth Fowkes Tobin.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bPENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axvi, 255 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor -- $g1.$tTropical bountry, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic -- $g2.$tProvisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners -- $g3.$tLand, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India -- $g4.$tPicturesque ruins, decaying empires, and British imperial character in Hodges's Travels in India -- $g5.$tSeeing, writing, and revision : natural history discourse and Captain Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the world -- $g6.$tDomesticating the tropics : tropical flowers, botanical books, and the culture of collecting -- $tEpilogue : decolonizing garden history.
520 1 $a"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 which Britons-imagined their role in the world." "Just as mastery of tropical nature, and especially its potential for agricultural productivity, became key concepts in the formation of British imperial identity, Colonizing Nature suggests that intellectual and visual mastery of the tropics - through the creation of art and literature - accompanied material appropriations of land, labor, and natural resources. Tobin convincingly argues that the depictions of tropical plants, gardens, and landscapes that circulated in the British imagination provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped the British Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043833
650 0 $aGardening$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aGardening$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aGardening in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007008783
650 0 $aColonies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028570
650 0 $aNature in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090286
651 0 $aTropics$xIn literature.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100238
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100239
651 0 $aTropics$xIn art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138067
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