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Sowing Empire: Landscape And Colonization
Jill H. Casid
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Description for Sowing Empire: Landscape And Colonization
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 88ill. BIC Classification: AMV; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping—landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century—are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, Sowing Empire considers imperial relandscaping—its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery—and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance—how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened ... Read more
Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping—landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century—are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, Sowing Empire considers imperial relandscaping—its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery—and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance—how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816640966
SKU
V9780816640966
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