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Colonial inventions : landscape, power, and representation in nineteenth-century Trinidad / by Amar Wahab

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Wahab, Amar
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Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 284 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolonial studies, by connecting the visual representation and indexing of colonial landscapes and peoples Other the making of colonial power. Emphasis is placed on three pivotal image catalogues which span the pre and post emancipation periods and which connect the projects of British slavery and indentureship. The book unearths sketches, paintings, lith ...
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ISBN
9781443819992 (electronic bk.)
1443819999 (electronic bk.)
9781443819220
1443819220
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.
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