Author: Henry Clemens PearsonPublisher: New York, The Indian rubber publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
What I Saw in the Tropics
Author: Henry Clemens PearsonPublisher: New York, The Indian rubber publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Notes of what I Saw and how I Saw it
Author: Loring ConversePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Wonders of the Tropics
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Wonders of the Tropics; Or, Explorations and Adventures of Henry M. Stanley and Other World-renowned Travelers
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
Book Description
In the Shadows of the Tropics
Author: James S. DuncanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317117735
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.
Picturing Tropical Nature
Author: Nancy StepanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801438813
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.
The Tropic Magazine
Author: The Tropical Agriculturalist
Author: Tropical Agriculturist
Author: American Tropics
Author: Megan RabyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635615
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.