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Colonizing Nature - The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 176-182 (Hardcover, New)
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Colonizing Nature - The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 176-182 (Hardcover, New)
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With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea,
cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical
agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how
dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became
central to the way in which Britons imagined their role in the
world. Tobin examines georgic poetry, landscape portraiture,
natural history writing, and botanical prints produced by Britons
in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and India to uncover how each
played a crucial role in developing the belief that the tropics
were simultaneously paradisiacal and in need of British
intervention and management. Her study examines how slave garden
portraits denied the horticultural expertise of the slaves, how the
East India Company hired such artists as William Hodges to paint
and thereby Anglicize the landscape and gardens of
British-controlled India, and how writers from Captain James Cook
to Sir James E. Smith depicted tropical lands and plants. Just as
mastery of tropical nature, and especially its potential for
agricultural productivity, became key concepts in the formation of
British imperial identity, Colonizing Nature suggests that
intellectual and visual mastery of the tropics-through the creation
of art and literature-accompanied material appropriations of land,
labor, and natural resources. Tobin convincingly argues that the
depictions of tropical plants, gardens, and landscapes that
circulated in the British imagination provide a key to
understanding the forces that shaped the British Empire.
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