In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 212 páginas
James Duncan traces the rise and fall of coffee production in highland Ceylon from the 1830s to the 1880s, showing at least in broad outline how the plantation system was constituted by the meeting up of histories through interpenetrating networks of nature/science/governmentality/culture.
 

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The Rise of a Plantation Economy
25
Reproducing Whiteness in the Tropics
43
The Quest to Discipline Estate Labour
67
The Medical Gaze and the Spaces of Biopower
101
Visualizing Crime in the Coffee Districts
145
The Last Years of Coffee
169
Conclusion
189
Index
209
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James S. Duncan is Reader in Cultural Geography, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK, and is Fellow of Emmanuel College, UK.

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