Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820
How the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies.
Print Book, English, 2004
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2004
Art
255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780812238358, 0812238354
1013333601
List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of CollectingEpilogue: Decolonizing Garden HistoryNotesSelected BibliographyIndexAcknowledgments