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The Tropics And the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, And Science, 1800-1856
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Hardcover
from Univ of Washington Pr (April 30, 2006)
9780295985817 | details & prices | 298 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $53.00
About: This is a book about land.
About: This is a book about land.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Univ of Washington Pr (June 16, 2014)
9780295993836 | details & prices | 298 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $30.00
About: Through close examination of the correlation between tropicality and "otherness" and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, this volume offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world.
About: Through close examination of the correlation between tropicality and "otherness" and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, this volume offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world.