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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

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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.
язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 312 ● ISBN 9780295800943 ● Размер файла 2.5 MB ● издатель University of Washington Press ● город Seattle ● Страна US ● опубликованный 2015 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 4852345 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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