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In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon (Re-materialising Cultural Geography) by James S. Duncan is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon (Re-materialising Cultural Geography) about?
James Duncan traces the rise and fall of coffee production in highland Ceylon from the 1830s to the 1880s, showing at least in broad outline how the plantation system was constituted by the meeting up of histories through interpenetrating networks of nature/science/<wbr>governmentality/culture.
Who reads In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon (Re-materialising Cultural Geography)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James S. Duncan
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317117735
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, History, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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