Awards
- Winner of American Horticultural Society Book Award 2008
- Winner of American Horticultural Society Book Award.
- Winner of American Society of Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence in Research 2008
- Winner of American Society of Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence in Research.
- Winner of Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Literature Award.
- Winner of Garden Writers Association Gold Award.
Overview
How is it that during a war, one can still find gardens? In the most brutal environments, on both the home front and the battlefield, they continue to flourish. Wartime gardens are dramatic examples of what Kenneth I. Helphand calls ""defiant gardens"" - gardens created in extreme social, political, economic, or cultural conditions. Illustrated with archival photos, this remarkable book examines gardens of war in the 20th century, including extraordinary examples built behind the trenches in World War I, in the Warsaw and other ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during wars in the Persian Gulf, Vietnam, and Korea. Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association award and other honors, Defiant Gardens proves that these man-made constructs are far more than decorative diversions or simple sanctuaries from the stresses of daily life.
Full Product Details
Author: Kenneth I. Helphand
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Trinity University Press,U.S.
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.765kg
ISBN: 9781595340450
ISBN 10: 1595340459
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 November 2008
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An incredible and deply moving history of the ways in which soldiers and civilians, often in the most grievous and immiserated circumstances, have created little pockets of horticultural hope throughout the twentieth century... The photographs alone are extraordinary, but the chronicles of imaginative resistance are almost beyond belief. (New Statesman)
Author Information
Kenneth Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, where he has taught courses in landscape history, theory, and design since 1974. His other books include Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel, and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space, coauthored with Cynthia Girling. Helphand served as editor of Landscape Journal from 1994 to 2002. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an honorary member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects. He has received the Bradford Williams Medal and a Graham Foundation grant, as well as distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
