TY - BOOK ID - 14258530 TI - In the shadows of the tropics : climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon PY - 2007 SN - 0754672263 9786611238339 1281238333 0754685985 1317117727 1317117735 9780754685982 9780754672265 9781315588209 9781317117711 9781317117728 9781138262416 131558820X PB - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, DB - UniCat KW - Coffee industry KW - Race. KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - History. KW - Coffee trade KW - Physical anthropology KW - Beverage industry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14258530 AB - In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world. This fascinating case study reveals the spatial fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower, and offers a welcome non-state dimension to current work on studies of governmentality in geography. ER -