Colonial Inventions : Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad
ISBN: 9781443819992
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: History;

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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