Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 176-182University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 M06 7 - 280 pages With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became central to the way in which Britons imagined their role in the world. |
Contents
Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor | 1 |
Chapter 1 Tropical Bounty Local Knowledge and the Imperial Georgic | 32 |
Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners | 56 |
Chapter 3 Land Labor and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India | 81 |
Chapter 4 Picturesque Ruins Decaying Empires and British Imperial Character in Hodgess Travels in India | 117 |
Natural History Discourse and Captain Cooks A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World | 144 |
Tropical Flowers Botanical Books and the Culture of Collecting | 168 |
Decolonizing Garden History | 198 |
Notes | 203 |
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Acknowledgments | 257 |
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Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 Beth Tobin No preview available - 2005 |