Overview

Landscapes is the second in our new series of environmental history readers, suitable for students and researchers. Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, each inexpensive paperback volume addresses an important theme in environmental history, combining underlying theory and specific case-studies. Landscapes explores the conceptualisation of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically. Excursions in landscape aesthetics contextualise case studies of landscapes perceived, constructed and responded to, from the plantations of South Africa to the Australian outback, the medieval Ardennes to nuclear-age America. Literary and artistic versions of landscape are studied alongside those driven by policy and pragmatism, probing the intersections of the transcendent and the ideological.

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Author:   Sarah Johnson
Publisher:   White Horse Press
Imprint:   White Horse Press
Volume:   No. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9781874267607

ISBN 10:   187426760
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   30 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Landscape and the Metaphysical Imagination - Ronald Hepburn Aesthetics in Practice: Valuing the Natural World - Emily Brady Aesthetic and Other Values in the Rural Landscape - John Benson Admiring the High Mountains: The Aesthetics of Environment - John Haldane What We Owe the Romantics - Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman Artists with Axes - Tim Bonyhady Thomas Pringle's Plantation - Damian Shaw Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the Search for a Populist Landscape Aesthetic - Renee Binder and G.W. Burnett 'Penetrating' Foreign Lands: Contestations Over African Landscapes. A Case Study from Eastern Zimbabwe - Heike Schmidt Engineering Miracles: Water Control, Conversion and the Creation of a Religious Landscape in the Medieval Ardennes - Ellen F. Arnold Environmental History and the Construction of Nature and Landscape: The Case of the 'Landscaping' of the Jutland heath - Kenneth R. Olwig 'Forsaken Spot' to 'Classic Ground': Geological Heritage in Australia and the Recuperative Power of the Deep Past - Kirsty Douglas 'Welcome to the Atomic Park': American Nuclear Landscapes and the 'Unnaturally Natural' - John Wills Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside - Joseph Goddard

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