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082	0	4	_a820.93213
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aTobin, Beth Fowkes _eautore
245	1	0	_aColonizing Nature : _bThe Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 176-182 / _cBeth Fowkes Tobin.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2011]
264		4	_c©2005
300			_a1 online resource (280 p.) : _b30 illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIllustrations -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- _tChapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- _tChapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- _tChapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- _tChapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- _tChapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- _tChapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- _tEpilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- _tNotes -- _tSelect Bibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWith its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became central to the way in which Britons imagined their role in the world.Tobin examines georgic poetry, landscape portraiture, natural history writing, and botanical prints produced by Britons in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and India to uncover how each played a crucial role in developing the belief that the tropics were simultaneously paradisiacal and in need of British intervention and management. Her study examines how slave garden portraits denied the horticultural expertise of the slaves, how the East India Company hired such artists as William Hodges to paint and thereby Anglicize the landscape and gardens of British-controlled India, and how writers from Captain James Cook to Sir James E. Smith depicted tropical lands and plants.Just as mastery of tropical nature, and especially its potential for agricultural productivity, became key concepts in the formation of British imperial identity, Colonizing Nature suggests that intellectual and visual mastery of the tropics-through the creation of art and literature-accompanied material appropriations of land, labor, and natural resources. Tobin convincingly argues that the depictions of tropical plants, gardens, and landscapes that circulated in the British imagination provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped the British Empire.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aGardening in literature.
650		0	_aGardening _xHistory _d18th century.
650		0	_aGardening _xHistory _d19th century.
650		0	_aGardening _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aGardening _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aCultural Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
653			_aCultural Studies.
653			_aLiterature.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203684
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203684
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