Sowing empire : landscape and colonization / Jill H. Casid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casid, Jill H.

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transplanting (Plant culture)--Colonies--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Transplanting (Plant culture).

Colonies.

Landscapes.

History.

Great Britain.

Transplanting (Plant culture)--Colonies--France--History--18th century.

France.

Sowing--Colonies--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Sowing.

Sowing--Colonies--France--History--18th century.

Agriculture and state--Colonies--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture and state--Colonies.

Agriculture and state--Colonies--France--History--18th century.

Landscapes--Caribbean Area--History--18th century.

Agriculture--history.

West Indies.

Agriculture--economics.

Colonialism--history.

History, 18th Century.

Caribbean Area.

Medical Subjects:

Agriculture--history.

West Indies.

Agriculture--economics.

Colonialism--history.

History, 18th Century.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction: On the psychogeographies of empire

The hybrid production of empire

Transplanting the metropole

Imperial nurseries

Some queer versions of Georgic

Countercolonial landscapes

Conclusion: Empire's displacements.

Notes:

"Portions of chapter 4 were originally published in Eighteenth-Century Studies 30, no. 3 (spring 1997)."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0816640955

9780816640959

0816640963

9780816640966

OCLC:

56422001