Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and TransculturationFirst published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Science planetary consciousness interiors | 15 |
Narrating the anticonquest | 38 |
The mystique of reciprocity 6898 | 69 |
Eros and abolition | 86 |
Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América | 111 |
The capitalist vanguard and | 144 |
From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador | 201 |
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