Images of the Tropics
：Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia
( Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde )
Publication subTitle ：Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia
Publication series ：Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Publisher： Brill
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9789004253605
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789067183680
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789067183680
Subject： B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy )
Language： ENG
Disclaimer: Any content in publications that violate the sovereignty, the constitution or regulations of the PRC is not accepted or approved by CNPIEC.
Description
Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe.
Chapter