"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."--Jacket.
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Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Colonizing nature: the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820
2005, PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press
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Colonizing Nature: The Tropics In British Arts And Letters, 1760-1820
December 30, 2004, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
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