The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 (Culture, Place, and Nature)

by David John Arnold (Author)

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  Paperback
  2014

  $43.43

  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.