Picturing Tropical Nature
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepicturingtropica00step
- ISBN-100801438810
- ISBN-139780801438813
- LibraryThing1293499
- Goodreads882586
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- Library of Congress Control Number00060393
- OCLC Control Number44868927
- Better World Books9780801438813
- Open LibraryOL7848408M
Classifications
- LCCBD581.S719 2001
- LCCBD 581 S719 2001
- LCCBD581 .S719 2001
Description
"Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and ecotourism, tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs, and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the "tropicalization of nature" can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the region and its peoples.". "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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