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Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
| Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
| Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/3213 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Gardening - History - 18th century Gardening - History - 19th century Gardening in literature Colonies in literature Nature in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-21208-0
9786613212085 0-8122-0368-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457363803321 |
Tobin Beth Fowkes
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
| Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
| Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/3213 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Gardening - History - 18th century Gardening - History - 19th century Gardening in literature Colonies in literature Nature in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Literature |
| ISBN |
1-283-21208-0
9786613212085 0-8122-0368-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781883703321 |
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Tobin Beth Fowkes
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
| Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
| Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/3213 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Gardening - History - 18th century Gardening - History - 19th century Gardening in literature Colonies in literature Nature in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Literature |
| ISBN |
1-283-21208-0
9786613212085 0-8122-0368-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812875103321 |
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Tobin Beth Fowkes
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
| Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
| Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 758/.9325341 |
| Soggetto topico | Painting, British - 18th century - Themes, motives |
| ISBN | 0-8223-9749-8 |
| Classificazione | LO 62140 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: toward a cultural history of colonialism -- Bringing the empire home: the Black servant in domestic portraiture -- Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians -- Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors -- Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture -- Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings -- Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British botanic empire -- Imperial politics of the local and the universal. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787045503321 |
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Tobin Beth Fowkes
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| Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
| Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
| Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 758/.9325341 |
| Soggetto topico | Painting, British - 18th century - Themes, motives |
| ISBN | 0-8223-9749-8 |
| Classificazione | LO 62140 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: toward a cultural history of colonialism -- Bringing the empire home: the Black servant in domestic portraiture -- Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians -- Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors -- Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture -- Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings -- Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British botanic empire -- Imperial politics of the local and the universal. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807843403321 |
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Tobin Beth Fowkes
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| Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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