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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Bibliographic Details
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press 2004.
Subjects:	1700-1899 English literature > History and criticism. Gardening > History > 18th century. Gardening > History > 19th century. Gardening in literature. Colonies in literature. Nature in literature. British colonies. English literature. Gardening. Literature. Tropics > In literature. Great Britain > Colonies > History > 18th century. Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century. Tropics > In art. Tropics. Art. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
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Table of Contents:

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.
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
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F
G
H
J
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Acknowledgments.

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