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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1 Views and Visions of the Tropical World - Voyages
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2 “On the Spot”: Traveling Artists and the Iconographic Inventory of the World, 1769–1859 -
3 The Stimulations of Travel: Humboldt's Physiological Construction of the Tropics -
4 “The Struggle for Luxuriance”: William Burchell Collects Tropical Nature - Mappings
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5 Dominica and Tahiti: Tropical Islands Compared -
6 Imagining the Tropical Colony: Henry Smeathman and the Termites of Sierra Leone -
7 Matthew Fontaine Maury's “Sea of Fire”: Hydrography, Biogeography, and Providence in the Tropics - Sites
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8 Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848–1850 -
9 Eyeing Samoa: People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -
10 Returning Fears: Tropical Disease and the Metropolis - Afterword
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11 Tropic and Tropicality - Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- Source:
- Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226164700.011.0001
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Views and Visions of the Tropical World - Voyages
-
2 “On the Spot”: Traveling Artists and the Iconographic Inventory of the World, 1769–1859 -
3 The Stimulations of Travel: Humboldt's Physiological Construction of the Tropics -
4 “The Struggle for Luxuriance”: William Burchell Collects Tropical Nature - Mappings
-
5 Dominica and Tahiti: Tropical Islands Compared -
6 Imagining the Tropical Colony: Henry Smeathman and the Termites of Sierra Leone -
7 Matthew Fontaine Maury's “Sea of Fire”: Hydrography, Biogeography, and Providence in the Tropics - Sites
-
8 Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848–1850 -
9 Eyeing Samoa: People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -
10 Returning Fears: Tropical Disease and the Metropolis - Afterword
-
11 Tropic and Tropicality - Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
