The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 (Culture, Place, and Nature)
Arnold, D. J.
ISBN 10: 0295993839 ISBN 13: 9780295993836
Verlag: University Of Washington Press, 2014
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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 Indias 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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David Arnold is professor of the history of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of a number of books, including Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India and The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and European Expansion.
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Titel: The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, ...
Verlag: University Of Washington Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good