Tropics and the Traveling Gaze - India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

Klappentext A new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Zusammenfassung Considering the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India! this book shows the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process.

Product details

• Authors: David Arnold, David John Arnold
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2006
• EAN: 9780295985817
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98581-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Culture, Place, and Nature; Culture, Place, and Nature; Culture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureThe Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)