Tropical visions in an age of empire [electronic resource] / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)ISBN:- 9780226164700 (electronic bk.)
- 0226164705 (electronic bk.)
- Tropics -- Description and travel
- Europeans -- Travel -- Tropics
- Travelers' writings, European
- Scientific expeditions -- Tropics
- Tropics -- In art
- Geography
- Européens -- Voyages -- Régions tropicales
- Écrits de voyageurs européens
- Expéditions scientifiques -- Régions tropicales
- Régions tropicales -- Descriptions et voyages
- Régions tropicales dans l'art
- 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
- Tropen
- Europa
- USA
- Geschichte 1700-1950
- 910/.913 22
- G905 .T75 2005eb
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.
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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