the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /
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Beth Fowkes Tobin
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Philadelphia :
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PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2005
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xvi, 255 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Epilogue : Decolonizing garden history
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Introduction : Troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor -- Tropical bounty, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic -- Provisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners -- Land, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India -- Picturesque ruins, decaying empires, and British imperial character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Seeing, writing, and revision : natural history discourse and Captain Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world -- Domesticating the tropics : tropical flowerrs, botanical books, and the culture of collecting