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Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780-1850

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O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European artists confronted the emergence of a new way of thinking about and treating the Earth and its resources. Centered on extraction, this new paradigm was characterized by large-scale efforts to transform and monetize the physical environment across the globe. With this book, ...