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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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Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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.
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 312 ● ISBN 9780295800943 ● Taille du fichier 2.5 MB ● Maison d’édition University of Washington Press ● Lieu Seattle ● Pays US ● Publié 2015 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 4852345 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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