Colonizing Nature : the Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820.

How the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies.

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1 Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2 Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4 Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India. 
505 8 |a Chapter 5 Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6 Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments. 
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