David John Arnold

The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze (eBook, ePUB)

India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295800943
• Artikelnr.: 44785273

Autorenporträt

David Arnold is professor of the history of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of a number of books, including Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India and The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and European Expansion.