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The landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection SB470.5 .J44 1995
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Van Pelt Library SB470.5 .J44 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996.
- Jellicoe, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture--History.
- Landscape architecture.
- History.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.
- Nature.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Landscape architecture--History--Pictorial works.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--History--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition, expanded and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1995.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Landscape and Civilization
- Part One. From prehistory to the end of the seventeenth century. Origins. The Central civilizations
- Western Asia to the Muslim Conquest
- Islam : Western Asia
- The Western Expansion of Islam : Spain
- The Eastern expansion of Islam : Mughul India
- The Eastern civilizations. Ancient India
- China
- Japan
- Pre-Columbian America
- The Western civilizations : from Egypt to the Renaissance. Egypt
- Greece
- The Roman Empire
- The Middle Ages in Europe
- Italy : the Renaissance
- Italy : Mannerisms and Baroque
- France : Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Spain, Germany, England, the Netherlands : Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries
- Part Two. The evolution of modern landscape. The eighteenth century. Western Classicism
- The Chinese School
- The English School
- The nineteenth century. The European Mainland
- The British Isles
- United States of America
- The twentieth century. Europe
- The Americas
- The Western Hemisphere : The New World
- The Eastern Hemisphere : The Old World
- World trends in landscape design
- Epilogue : Towards the landscape of humanism
- Acknowledgments
- Select bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Printed and bound by C. S. Graphics.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.
- ISBN:
- 0500278199
- OCLC:
- 187451392
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