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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.

Van Pelt Library DA600 .O49 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Olwig, Kenneth.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
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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