Representing Africa : landscape, exploration and empire in southern Africa, 1780-1870 /
John McAleer.
Bok Engelsk 2010 John. McAleer
| Utgitt | Manchester ; New York : New York : : Manchester University Press ; : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010.
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| Omfang | xix, 241 p., [8] p. of plates : : ill. (some col.) ;
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| Opplysninger | Examines the ways British travelers, explorers, mariners, and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the area. Looks at the aesthetics of landscape, scientific expeditions, missionary activity, and the impact of hunting among other themes to illuminate the relationship between Europeans and their interpretations of the region.
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| ISBN | 0719081041 (hbk.). - 9780719081040 (hbk.)
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