In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon (Re-materialising Cultural Geography)

by JamesS.Duncan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $151.66

  Investigates the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-19th century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and the subsequent, sudden removal of coffee from the island. This book shows the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower.