In the Shadows of the Tropics Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon

In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world. This fascinating case study reveals the spatial fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biop...

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Main Author Duncan, James S.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 2007
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Ashgate
Edition1
SeriesRe-materialising cultural geography
Subjects
Asian History
Asian Studies (General)
Coffee industry
Colonies
Cultural Geography
Environmental Geography
Great Britain
History
Modern History 1750-1945
Race
Race & Ethnic Studies
Regional Geography - Human Geography
White Creole Culture
estates
labourers
Young Man
Cattle Trespass
Coffee Stealing
vastatrix
Indian Plantation Labour
Coffee Period
Estate Labourers
Nineteenth Century Ceylon
Hemileia Vastatrix
Colebrooke Cameron Reforms
driesen
Vanden Driesen
Nuwara Eliya
hemileia
Liberian Coffee
Colonial Administration
period
Palk Strait
Tamil Labourers
Ancient Tenures
estate
vanden
Colonial Surgeon
Coffee Estates
Low Country Sinhalese
Chena Land
Medical Topography
Peasant Coffee
Principal Civil Medical Officer
coffee
Leaf Disease
planting
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Summary:In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world. This fascinating case study reveals the spatial fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower, and offers a welcome non-state dimension to current work on studies of governmentality in geography.
ISBN:9781138262416
0754672263
9780754672265
1138262412
DOI:10.4324/9781315588209