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Stonehenge / Rosemary Hill, Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Rosemary, Author.
- Hill,, Author.
- Series:
- Wonders of the World
- Wonders of the world : 20
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Hill guides the reader on a tour of Stonehenge in all its cultural contexts, as a monument to many things - to Renaissance Humanism, Romantic despair, Victorian enterprise, and English Radicalism.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 A VERY SHORT PREHISTORY
- 2 CONTENDING WITH OBLIVION: THE ANTIQUARIES
- 3 ART, ORDER AND PROPORTION: THE ARCHITECTS
- 4 ‘COLD STON’Y HORROR’: THE ROMANTICS
- 5 THE AGE OF DARWIN
- 6 ARCHAEOLOGY, ASTRONOMY AND THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
- 7 THE NEW MILLENNIUM
- PLANNING A VISIT?
- FURTHER READING
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-06358-9
- OCLC:
- 1291506801
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