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- catalog abstract ""Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and ecotourism, tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs, and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the "tropicalization of nature" can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the region and its peoples." "Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12091412.
- catalog coverage "Tropics In art.".
- catalog coverage "Tropics In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Tropics.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and ecotourism, tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs, and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the "tropicalization of nature" can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the region and its peoples."".
- catalog description "1. Going to the Tropics -- 2. An Evolutionist's Tropics -- 3. Racial Degenerations -- 4. Racial Transformations -- 5. The New Tropical Pathology -- 6. Appearances and Disappearances -- 7. Tropical Modernism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-275) and index.".
- catalog extent "283 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801438810".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Tropics In art.".
- catalog spatial "Tropics In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Tropics.".
- catalog subject "909/.093 21".
- catalog subject "Art History.".
- catalog subject "BD 581 S8273p 2001".
- catalog subject "BD581 .S719 2001".
- catalog subject "Human ecology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Literature History.".
- catalog subject "Nature.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy of nature.".
- catalog subject "Tropical Climate.".
- catalog subject "Tropical Medicine History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Going to the Tropics -- 2. An Evolutionist's Tropics -- 3. Racial Degenerations -- 4. Racial Transformations -- 5. The New Tropical Pathology -- 6. Appearances and Disappearances -- 7. Tropical Modernism.".
- catalog title "Picturing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan.".
- catalog type "Art. fast".
- catalog type "text".