02432cam a22003372 b4500 9061045 20220326193304.0 m d cr n 050802e20060215xxka s|||||||| 2|eng|d 9781861891464 1861891466 (Trade Paper) USD 25.00 Retail Price (Chicago Distribution Center) 9781861891464 (WaSeSS)ssj0000477853 00314465 BIP US WaSeSS 909.093 ST827p Stepan, Nancy Leys Author 1613 Picturing Tropical Nature Picturing Tropical Nature [electronic resource] London : Reaktion Books, Limited Feb. 2006 Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] 283 p.; 26 cm ill (col) Reaktion Books - Picturing History Ser. 1614 License restrictions may limit access. Annotation Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are,Picturing Tropical Natureargues, largely a construct of American and European imaginations. Nancy Leys Stephan asserts that images of the tropics conveyed through drawings, paintings, photographs, literature, and travel writings are central to what Stepan calls the "tropicalization of nature," or the often harmful misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples. She here examines several aspects of such tropicalization as they emerge through the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. From the earliest photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races to depictions of disease in new tropical medicines,Picturing Tropical Natureoffers new insight into the convergence of the tropics with European and American science and art. "A brilliant and provocative book . . . the kind of book that carries forward a field in a single stride . . . undoubtedly the finest account of 'tropicality' we have."-Social History of Medicine Trade Reaktion Books, Limited Nancy Leys Stepan 1615 Art Source http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio9061045 Full text available from Art Source Bowker Global Books in Print record 339 339 0 0 ddc 0 0 LV LV Pensamiento 2014-11-14 0 909.093 ST827p 004005 2014-11-14 00:00:00 2014-11-14 01