{"product_id":"colonizing-nature-9780812238358","title":"Colonizing Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tobin's analyses of paintings . . . confirm her as an indispensable commentator on imperial themes in eighteenth-century British art.\" * \u003ci\u003eModern Language Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic\u003cbr\u003e 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners\u003cbr\u003e 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India\u003cbr\u003e 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India\u003cbr\u003e 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World\u003cbr\u003e 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MT - University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577538842967,"sku":"9780812238358","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812238358.jpg?v=1746095741","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonizing-nature-9780812238358","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}