Tropical visions in an age of empire
By: edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: In art; Description and travel; Travelers' writings, European; Scientific expeditions; Travel; Europeans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins; title: "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi; title: The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach; title: "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver; title: Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme; title: Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver; title: Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. Graham Burnett; title: Envisioning the tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850 / David Arnold; title: Eyeing Samoa: people, places, and spaces in photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Leonard Bell; title: Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis / Rod Edmond; title: Tropic and tropicality / Denis Cosgrove.