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  1. Picturing tropical nature
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Reaktion Books, London

    Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent ... more

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    Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent historic misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781861896254; 9781282265202; 1282265202
    RVK Categories: CC 6300 ; LH 84956
    Series: Picturing History
    Subjects: Europeans; Philosophy of nature; Philosophy of nature; Tropics; Geschichte 1800-2000
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (285 Seiten)
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    Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001