The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and by David John Arnold
By David John Arnold
The Tropics and the touring Gaze considers the eu illustration and realizing of panorama and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It attracts on trip narratives, literary texts, and clinical literature to teach the range of ecu (especially British) responses to the Indian atmosphere and the ways that those contributed to the broader colonizing method. via its shut exam of the correlation among tropicality and �otherness,� and of technological know-how as a method of colonial appropriation, the e-book deals a brand new interpretation of the background of colonial India and a serious contribution to the certainty of environmental heritage and the tropical international. it is going to be of curiosity to historians of our environment, technological know-how, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.
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