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Technologies of landscape : from reaping to recycling / edited by David E. Nye. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape assessment.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Landscape assessment--Effect of human beings on.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 292 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Technologies of landscape / David E. Nye
- Agricultural technology and the ephemeral landscape / Paul Brassley
- Journey into space: interpretations of landscape in contemporary art / James Dickinson
- Abandoning paradise: the western pictorial paradigm shift around 1420 / Jacob Wamberg
- The employment of the word: writing, topography, and colonial landscapes / Tadeusz Rachwal
- Remaking a "natural menace": engineering the Colorado River / David E. Nye
- Begrudging aesthetics for a new south: the Farm Security Administration Photographic Project and southern modernization, 1935 to 1943 / Stuart Kidd
- Making and meaning in the English countryside / Christopher Bailey
- Public perceptions of smoke pollution in victorian Manchester / Stephen Mosley
- Narrating the toxic landscape in "cancer alley," Louisiana / Barbara Allen
- Benton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail: imagining and engineering a landscape / Mark Luccarelli
- "The landscape's crown": landscape, perceptions, and modernizing effects of the German autobahn system, 1934 to 1941 / Thomas Zeller
- The improvement of Arthur Young: agricultural technology and the production of landscape in eighteenth-century England / Stephen Bending
- The road to industrial heterotopia: landscape, technology, and George Orwell's travelogue the Road to Wigan Pier / Pia Maria Ahlbäck
- Recycled landscapes: mining's legacies in the Mesabi Iron Range / Peter Goin and Elizabeth Raymond.
- Notes:
- "This book emerged from a conference 'Landscape and technology,' held at Odense University in Denmark in January 1997"--P. ix.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-34246-6
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