The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze : India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

by David John Arnold

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Culture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureThe Tropics and the Traveling Gaze

ISBN-10 0295993839

ISBN-13 9780295993836

Publisher University of Washington Press

Imprint University of Washington Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 1st, 2014

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 490 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.40 x 1.90 cms

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Considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. This book draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process.

The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and "otherness," and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. It will be of interest to historians of the environment, science, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.

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