Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

Author:   Dr. Jarrod Hore
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520381254


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 April 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.

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Author:   Dr. Jarrod Hore
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780520381254


ISBN 10:   0520381254
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: Between Ancestral Ties and Settler Territoriality 1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World 2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the Problematic of Waste 3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes 4. Tanga Whakaahua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence in Colonial Landscapes 5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage 7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth Century Conclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of Place Notes Bibliography Index

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Visions of Nature... is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed 'global' and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *


Visions of Nature... is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed 'global' and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online * Hore has written a series of microhistories that combine to tell a fascinating transnational narrative of late-19th-century colonial environmentalism. * Journal of Australian Studies *


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Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian and Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program at University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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