Picturing Tropical Nature: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930

by Nancy Leys Stepan

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Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801438810

ISBN13:9780801438813

Release Date:March 2001

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Biological Sciences Cultural Ecology Ecosystems Europe History History & Philosophy Humanities

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