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1 online resource (280) |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1 Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2 Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4 Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India |
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Chapter 5 Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6 Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Gardening -- History -- 18th century
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Gardening -- History -- 19th century
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Gardening in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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British colonies.
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Colonies in literature.
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English literature.
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Gardening.
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Gardening in literature.
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Literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Tropics -- In literature
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
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Tropics -- In art.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138067
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Tropics.
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Art.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1283212080 |
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9781283212083 |
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