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" Colonizing nature : "
Beth Fowkes Tobin
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BL
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635900
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Tobin, Beth Fowkes
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Colonizing nature : : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /\ Beth Fowkes Tobin
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Philadelphia :: PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,, c2005
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xvi, 255 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0812238354 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Epilogue : Decolonizing garden history
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English literature-- History and criticism
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Gardening-- History-- 18th century
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Gardening-- History-- 19th century
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Gardening in literature
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Colonies in literature
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Nature in literature
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Tropics, In literature
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Great Britain, Colonies, History, 18th century
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Great Britain, Colonies, History, 19th century
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Tropics, In art
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820.9/3213
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PR129.T76T63 2005
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