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020			_a0812238354 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aPR129.T76 _bT63 2005
100	1		_aTobin, Beth Fowkes. _962417
245	1	0	_aColonizing nature : _bthe tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / _cBeth Fowkes Tobin.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bPENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, _cc2005.
300			_axvi, 255 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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 --
505	0		_aEpilogue : Decolonizing garden history.
520	1		_a"With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became central to the way in which Britons-imagined their role in the world." "Just as mastery of tropical nature, and especially its potential for agricultural productivity, became key concepts in the formation of British imperial identity, Colonizing Nature suggests that intellectual and visual mastery of the tropics - through the creation of art and literature - accompanied material appropriations of land, labor, and natural resources. Tobin convincingly argues that the depictions of tropical plants, gardens, and landscapes that circulated in the British imagination provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped the British Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xHistory and criticism. _962418
650		0	_aGardening _xHistory _y18th century. _962419
650		0	_aGardening _xHistory _y19th century. _962420
650		0	_aGardening in literature. _959678
650		0	_aColonies in literature. _962421
650		0	_aNature in literature. _962422
651		0	_aTropics _xIn literature. _962423
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xColonies _xHistory _y18th century. _962424
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xColonies _xHistory _y19th century. _962425
651		0	_aTropics _xIn art. _962426
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aTobin, Beth Fowkes. _tColonizing nature. _dPhiladelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 _w(OCoLC)607393641
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