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Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
2014, University of Chicago Press
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Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
2010, University of Chicago Press
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Tropical visions in an age of empire
2005, University of Chicago Press
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Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
October 15, 2005, University Of Chicago Press
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Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
October 15, 2005, University Of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.
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