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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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Images of the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia / / Susie Protschky
| Images of the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia / / Susie Protschky |
| Autore | Protschky Susie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, : KITLV Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
| Disciplina | 720 |
| Collana | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
| Soggetto topico |
Orientalism in art
Art, European - 19th century Art, European - 20th century Art, Dutch - Indonesia - 19th century Art, Dutch - Indonesia - 20th century Art - Political aspects - Indonesia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-25360-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Environment and visual culture in the Netherlands Indies -- Chapter One: Historicizing colonialism: The legacy of images made during the East India Company period in Dutch ways of seeing -- Chapter Two: Narratives of expansion: Colonial landscape images and empire building -- Chapter Three: Naturalizing conquest: Rural idylls in colonial painting -- Chapter Four: Articles of faith: Religion, fear and fantasy in Indies landscapes -- Chapter Five: Seductions of the tropics: Race, class and gender in colonial images of nature and landscape -- Conclusions and Epilogue: Landscape, visual culture and colonial history -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463256503321 |
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Protschky Susie
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| Leiden, : KITLV Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Images of the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia / / Susie Protschky
| Images of the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia / / Susie Protschky |
| Autore | Protschky Susie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, : KITLV Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
| Disciplina | 720 |
| Collana | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
| Soggetto topico |
Orientalism in art
Art, European - 19th century Art, European - 20th century Art, Dutch - Indonesia - 19th century Art, Dutch - Indonesia - 20th century Art - Political aspects - Indonesia |
| ISBN | 90-04-25360-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Environment and visual culture in the Netherlands Indies -- Chapter One: Historicizing colonialism: The legacy of images made during the East India Company period in Dutch ways of seeing -- Chapter Two: Narratives of expansion: Colonial landscape images and empire building -- Chapter Three: Naturalizing conquest: Rural idylls in colonial painting -- Chapter Four: Articles of faith: Religion, fear and fantasy in Indies landscapes -- Chapter Five: Seductions of the tropics: Race, class and gender in colonial images of nature and landscape -- Conclusions and Epilogue: Landscape, visual culture and colonial history -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787583703321 |
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Protschky Susie
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| Leiden, : KITLV Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Images of the tropics : environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia / / Susie Protschky
| Images of the tropics : environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia / / Susie Protschky |
| Autore | Protschky Susie |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, : KITLV Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
| Disciplina | 720 |
| Collana | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
| Soggetto topico |
Orientalism in art
Art, European - 19th century Art, European - 20th century Art, Dutch - Indonesia - 19th century Art, Dutch - Indonesia - 20th century Art - Political aspects - Indonesia |
| ISBN | 90-04-25360-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Environment and visual culture in the Netherlands Indies -- Chapter One: Historicizing colonialism: The legacy of images made during the East India Company period in Dutch ways of seeing -- Chapter Two: Narratives of expansion: Colonial landscape images and empire building -- Chapter Three: Naturalizing conquest: Rural idylls in colonial painting -- Chapter Four: Articles of faith: Religion, fear and fantasy in Indies landscapes -- Chapter Five: Seductions of the tropics: Race, class and gender in colonial images of nature and landscape -- Conclusions and Epilogue: Landscape, visual culture and colonial history -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825862403321 |
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Protschky Susie
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| Leiden, : KITLV Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tropical aesthetics of black modernism / / Samantha A. Noël
| Tropical aesthetics of black modernism / / Samantha A. Noël |
| Autore | Noël Samantha A. <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 704.03960730904 |
| Collana | The visual arts of africa and its diasporas |
| Soggetto topico |
Art, Black - Caribbean Area - 20th century - Themes, motives
African American artists Art, Caribbean - 20th century - Themes, motives |
| ISBN |
1-4780-1289-7
9781478012894 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Tropicality, Modernity, and the African Diaspora -- American Tropical Modernism: The African Diasporic Reaches of Aaron Douglas's Landscapes -- Brazenly Avant-Garde: Wifredo Lam's Transformation of Cuba's Tropical Terrain -- Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad Carnival: Tropicality and Strategies of Space-Making -- Pan-African Geographies in Motion: The Tropical Performances of Maya Angelou and Josephine Baker -- The Black Body, Tropicality, and the Black Speculative. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554215303321 |
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Noël Samantha A. <1977->
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| Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tropical visions in an age of empire [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins
| Tropical visions in an age of empire [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina | 910/.913 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DriverFelix
MartinsLuciana de Lima <1963-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Europeans - Travel - Tropics
Travelers' writings, European Scientific expeditions - Tropics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-90183-4
9786612901836 0-226-16470-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins -- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi -- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver -- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme -- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver -- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. Graham Burnett -- Envisioning the tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 / David Arnold -- Eyeing Samoa: people, places, and spaces in photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonard Bell -- Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis / Rod Edmond -- Tropic and tropicality / Denis Cosgrove. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459496103321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tropical visions in an age of empire [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins
| Tropical visions in an age of empire [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina | 910/.913 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DriverFelix
MartinsLuciana de Lima <1963-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Europeans - Travel - Tropics
Travelers' writings, European Scientific expeditions - Tropics |
| Soggetto non controllato | tropical, geography, imperialism, colonialism, exoticism, experience, representation, fantasy, travel, civilization, excess, noble savage, visual culture, latin america, caribbean, west africa, south asia, pacific, expedition, exploration, discovery, anthropology, science, history, literature, art, postcolonialism, tropics, europe, identity, samoa, photography, himalayas, india, joseph hooker, tahiti, dominica, colony, william burchell, biogeography, hydrography, sea of fire, matthew fontaine maury, nonfiction |
| ISBN |
1-282-90183-4
9786612901836 0-226-16470-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins -- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi -- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver -- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme -- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver -- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. Graham Burnett -- Envisioning the tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 / David Arnold -- Eyeing Samoa: people, places, and spaces in photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonard Bell -- Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis / Rod Edmond -- Tropic and tropicality / Denis Cosgrove. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785317203321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tropical visions in an age of empire / / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins
| Tropical visions in an age of empire / / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina | 910/.913 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DriverFelix
MartinsLuciana de Lima <1963-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Europeans - Travel - Tropics
Travelers' writings, European Scientific expeditions - Tropics |
| ISBN |
1-282-90183-4
9786612901836 0-226-16470-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins -- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi -- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver -- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme -- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver -- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. Graham Burnett -- Envisioning the tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 / David Arnold -- Eyeing Samoa: people, places, and spaces in photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonard Bell -- Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis / Rod Edmond -- Tropic and tropicality / Denis Cosgrove. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822952303321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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