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Tropical visions in an age of empire

Tropical visions in an age of empire [electronic resource] / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. - University of Chicago Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)

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

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.

This volume of 11 illustrated essays from a wide range of disciplines explores images of the tropical world - paintings, maps, botanical drawings, diagrams, texts and photographs - produced by European and American travellers over the past three centuries.

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Geschichte 1700-1950


Europeans--Travel--Tropics.
Travelers' writings, European.
Scientific expeditions--Tropics.
Geography.
Européens--Voyages--Régions tropicales.
Écrits de voyageurs européens.
Expéditions scientifiques--Régions tropicales.
TRAVEL--Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL--Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL--Budget.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Ecotourism.
TRAVEL--Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL--Reference.
TRAVEL--Road Travel.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Adventure.
Reisebericht.
Vorstellung.


Tropics--Description and travel.
Tropics--In art.
Régions tropicales--Descriptions et voyages.
Régions tropicales dans l'art.
Tropen.
Europa.
USA.


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