GGR360H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John Bowring, Joseph Banks, Immanuel Kant
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Colonialism is the most important topic in landscape geography. How a colonial would be discussed back home. These images would have circulated back home as well as in the colonial. These images travelled: empire: political, economic, military control. Travel writers sent on be half of an empire. Maps: a place to educate in the superiority. Soap (soap tins depicted a process of racial improvement) Empires circulated as an under text in the literature of the time: imaginative geographies. Edward said, culture and imperialism: the traveling picturesque: george heriot. Painted picture in the 18th and 19th century of canada. Relationship between colonialism and geographic description, and the idea of aesthetics passed through. How the landscapes act on the bodies of those who. Discussion of health, cures, and diseases relationship between the two: the english countryside is an area to make a fortune. Clear link between the estate landscape and how it was represented in the caribbean.
