The Interpretation of ordinary landscapes : geographical essays / D. W. Meinig, editor ; J. B. Jackson ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meinig, D. W. (Donald William), 1924-2020., editor.

Lauterberg, Egon, cover designer.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996.

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

Contents:

Introduction

Fundamentals. Axioms for reading the landscape : some guides to the American scene / Peirce F. Lewis

The beholding eye : ten versions of the same scene / D. W. Meing

Explorations. The biography of landscape : cause and culpability / Marwyn S. Samuels

Thought and landscape : the eye and the mind's eye / Yi-Fu Tuan

Age and artifact : dilemmas of appreciation / David Lowenthal

The landscape of home : myth, experience, social meaning / David E. Sopher

American expressions. The order of a landscape : reason and religion in Newtonian America / J. B. Jackson

Symbolic landscapes : models of American community / D. W. Meinig

Teachers. Reading the landscape : an appreciation of W. G. Hoskins and J. B. Jackson / D. W. Meinig

The contributors

Index.

Notes:

"Seven of the nine essays derived from a special series of lectures presented at Syracuse University." -- Provided by publisher.

Cover design by Egon Lauterberg.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

0195025369

OCLC:

4504491