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David John Arnold 
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze 
India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

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Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Itinerant Empire
2. In a Land of Death
3. Romanticism and Improvement
4. From the Orient to the Tropics
5. Networks and Knowledges
6. Botany and the Bounds of Empire
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor

Kalyanakrishnan ‚Shivi‘ Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 312 ● ISBN 9780295800943 ● Dateigröße 2.5 MB ● Verlag University of Washington Press ● Ort Seattle ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2015 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 4852345 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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