In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century CeylonAshgate 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/ |
Contenido
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 |
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In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth ... James S. Duncan Vista previa limitada - 2016 |
In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth ... Mr James S Duncan Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth ... James S. Duncan Vista previa limitada - 2016 |
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