Climate and the picturesque in the American tropics
This text explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. It shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward a new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in mo...
Main Author: | Boyden, Michael, |
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Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (colour). |
Series: |
Oxford studies in American literary history.
Oxford scholarship online. |
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CMU Electronic Access
Electronic Resource Click HereLocation | Call Number: | Status |
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CMU Electronic Access | Available |