Abstract
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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