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Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin
| Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452067103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin
| Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778356203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin
| Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823701703321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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