Tropical visions in an age of empire chicago scholarship. Starr douglas parktown brighton, united kingdom linkedin. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Nature, environment, and empire mit opencourseware. This volume of 11 illustrated essays from a wide range of disciplines explores images of the tropical world paintings, maps, botanical drawings, diagrams, texts and photographs produced by. Tropical visions in an age of empire kindle edition by driver, felix, martins, luciana. Tropical visions in an age of empire edited by felix driver and luciana martins. Tropical visions in an age of empire hardback felix driver. Felix driver publications research royal holloway, university of. Felix drivers research works royal holloway, university of london.
Tropical visions in an age of empire edited by felix driver and luciana martins the tropics and the traveling gaze. Ceroxylon synonyms, ceroxylon pronunciation, ceroxylon translation, english dictionary definition of ceroxylon. Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism, 16001860. Felix driver is an historical geographer who specialises in collectionsbased research and public engagement in the arts and humanities, including a series of projects in partnership with museums and visual artists. This book is especially concerned with the ways in which the tropics have been represented as something to be seena view to be had or a vision to be. Tropical geography refers to the study of places and people in the tropics. When it first emerged as a discipline, tropical geography was closely associated with imperialism and colonial expansion of the european empires as contributing scholars tended to portray the tropical places as primitive and people uncivilised and inferior. Tropical visions in an age of empire, felix driver. Felix driver is the author of geography militant 3. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume. See also douglas, starr and driver, felix, imagining the tropical colony.
Mcneill, revolutionary mosquitoes or the atlantic world. Felix driver, lowri jones, 2009 royal holloway, university of london. Cultures of exploration and empire felix driver, 2001 john wiley and sons ltd. Tropical visions in an age of empire 1st edition by felix driver and publisher university of chicago press. This book brings together contributors from various disciplinary backgroundsprincipally, art history, cultural geography, literature, imperial history, and the history of scienceto consider the visualization of the tropical world. A professor of human geography, felix driver is a scholar whose interests include imperialism, the cultural geography of the european imperial city, and moral geographies of social policies in britain. Views and visions of the tropical world chicago scholarship. Explore books by felix driver with our selection at.
Tropical visions in an age of empire is an excellent volume of eleven essays that makes a lasting contribution to the history and geography of the tropics. Felix drivers 26 research works with 425 citations and 1122 reads, including. Professor felix driver research royal holloway, university of. Felix driver is an historical geographer who specialises in collectionsbased research and public engagement in the arts. The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the western geographical imagination. Tropical visions in an age of empire, edited by felix. Luciana martins, tropical visions in an age of empire page 162 a complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play.
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An impressive product of multidisciplinary collaboration, tropical visions in an age of empire brings together recent scholarship from such diverse fields as art history, geography, literature, and the history of science in order to address the ways in which westerners perceived the tropical world from the mideighteenth through the midtwentiethcentury. View felix drivers profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Tropical visions in an age of empire by felix driver, 9780226164724, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects. Volume 11 issue 4 environmental history oxford academic. In predicting the weather, anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. Tropical visions in an age of empire, felix driver, luciana martins. Tropical visions in an age of empire kindle edition by. The chicago distribution center is temporarily closed. Henry smeathman and the termites of sierra leone, in driver, felix and martins, luciana, eds. This collection, edited by felix driver and luciana martins, explores the tropics as it has figured in the postenlightenment european imagination. Traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 17691859 claudio greppi. Tropical visions in an age of empire felix driver and luciana martins abstract.
The item tropical visions in an age of empire, edited by felix driver and luciana martins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in brigham young university. University of chicago press, oct 15, 2005 history 279 pages. Driver, felix, and luciana martins eds 2005 tropical visions in an age of empire chicago. Geoffrey hancock insect collecting in africa during the eighteenth century and. Pdf felix driver and luciana martins, tropical visions. I am grateful to felix driver for his comments on an earlier version.
Michael dettelbach, the stimulations of travel, in felix driver and luciana martins, tropical visions in an age of empire u of chicago p, 2005. Collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twentyfirst century. The power of images in american environmental reform, rev. Felix driver and luciana martins, tropical visions in an age of empire beinart and hughes, ch. Felix driver and luciana martins eds tropical visions in an age of empire eds felix driver and luciana martins. Tropical visions in an age of empire, driver, martins. Felix driver is an historical geographer committed to scholarship and public. Add to basket tropical visions in an age of empire paperback. A transatlantic history of environmental restoration, and finis dunaway. Ceroxylon definition of ceroxylon by the free dictionary. Tropical visions in an age of empire edited by felix.
Charlotte sleighs work on ants and john clarks introduction to his work on insects in. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. An exemplarily interdisciplinary volume, the book incorporates historical, literary. The book tropical visions in an age of empire, edited by felix driver and luciana martins is published by university of chicago press. Felix driver is professor of human geography at royal holloway, university of london. A wide range of subjects has been discussed within the. Pdf on dec 1, 2006, jim endersby and others published felix driver. Starr douglas and felix driver imagining the tropical colony. Travel, exploration and knowledge in the nineteenth century1 volume 14 felix driver.
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