The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856
English
By (author): David John Arnold
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which Indias material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.
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