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University of Washington Press The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze 2014 Edition by David John Arnold, SeriesK. Sivaramakrishnan
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.