{"product_id":"the-tropics-and-the-traveling-gaze-india-landscape-and-science-1800-1856-paperback","title":"The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid John Arnold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tropics and the Traveling Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and \"otherness,\" and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. It will be of interest to historians of the environment, science, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Arnold is professor of the history of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eColonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and European Expansion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45310104698982,"sku":"9780295993836","price":69.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/djY5MWNhS0RHcDU3Q2pjbmM3UXhhQT09.webp?v=1774227037","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-tropics-and-the-traveling-gaze-india-landscape-and-science-1800-1856-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}