The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

by David Arnold

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993839
• ISBN13: 9780295993836
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher