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

by Nancy Leys Stepan

Book Overview

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