The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856| By: | David John Arnold |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780295985817 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780295800943 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2006 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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 India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.