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Landscape, nature, and the body politic : from Britain's renaissance to America's new world / Kenneth Robert Olwig ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) DA600 .O49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olwig, Kenneth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscapes.
- History.
- Nature--Political aspects.
- Nature.
- Land use--Political aspects.
- Land use.
- Landscapes--Political aspects.
- Historical geography.
- Great Britain--Historical geography.
- Great Britain.
- Landscapes--Political aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Land use--Political aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Nature--Political aspects--Great Britain--History.
- America--Foreign public opinion, British.
- America.
- Landscapes--Great Britain--History.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Nature in literature.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- The political landscape as polity and place
- Country and landscape
- "Masquing" the body politic of Britain
- Landscaping the body politic of the British state
- Landscaping Britain's country and nature
- Gendering the nation's natural landscape
- Landscaping racial and national progress
- The "country" of the United States contra the "landscape" of America's new world
- Landscape, place, and the body politic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0299174204
- 0299174247
- OCLC:
- 48451186
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