Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013-07-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 178138794X |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9781846319983 |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1846318904 |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics
Title | Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter W. Stahl |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 1995-05-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521444866 |
This volume explore problems faced by archaeologists in the difficult conditions of the lowland American tropics.
American Tropics
Title | American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Raby |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1469635615 |
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
Die Vegetation der Erde: Phytogeographic survey of North America. A consideration of the phytogeography of the North American continent, including Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, together with the evolution of North American plant distribution
Title | Die Vegetation der Erde: Phytogeographic survey of North America. A consideration of the phytogeography of the North American continent, including Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, together with the evolution of North American plant distribution PDF eBook |
Author | Adolf Engler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 904 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Phytogeography |
ISBN |
Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture
Title | Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Justin D. Edwards |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2016-01-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317425782 |
Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region.