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" Picturing tropical nature / "
Nancy Stepan.
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BL
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952722
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b707092
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| Main Entry
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Stepan, Nancy.
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| Title & Author
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Picturing tropical nature /\ Nancy Stepan.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Reaktion Books,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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Picturing history
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1 online resource (283 pages) :: illustrations, maps.
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| ISBN
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1861896255
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1861890842
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1861891466
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9781861890849
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9781861891464
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Going to the tropics -- An evolutionist's tropics -- Racial degenerations -- Racial transformations -- The new tropical pathology -- Appearances and disappearances -- Tropical modernism -- Epilogue.
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| Abstract
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Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent histo.
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Philosophy of nature.
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HISTORY-- World.
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Literature.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Tropics, In art.
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Tropics, In literature.
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Tropics.
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Tropics.
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| Dewey Classification
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909.093
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BD581.S72 2001eb
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