Social formation and symbolic landscape / Denis E. Cosgrove.

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Cosgrove, Denis E.

Title & Author:

Social formation and symbolic landscape / Denis E. Cosgrove.

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Description:

xxxvii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Originally Croom Helm historical geography series

Notes:
Originally published: London : Croom Helm, ©1984, in series: Croom Helm historical geography series. With new introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The Idea of Landscape -- Landscape and Social Formation: Theoretical Considerations -- Landscape in Renaissance Italy: City, Country and Social Formation -- Venice, the Veneto and Sixteenth-century Landscape -- Seasons and Eclogues: Foundations of English and American Landscape -- America as Landscape -- England: Prospects, Palladianism and Paternal Landscapes -- Sublime Nature: Landscape and Industrial Capitalism -- The Landscape Idea and the Modern World.

Summary:

"Since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0299155145 (pbk.)
9780299155148 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape assessment History.
Human ecology.
Social history.
Land use History.
Social Conditions
Paysages Évaluation Histoire.
Écologie humaine.
Histoire sociale.
Utilisation du sol Histoire.
human ecology.
social history.
Land use.
Landscape assessment.
Architektursoziologie.
Landschaftsbild
Begriff
Geschichte
Kulturlandschaft
Landschaftsarchitektur
Soziologie
Stadtforschung
Landschaft
Landschappen.
Symboliek.
Sociale aspecten.
Sol, Utilisation du Histoire.
Paysage Évaluation Histoire.
Évaluation du paysage.
Paysage.
Utilisation du sol.
Histoire.
Europa Stadtforschung.
Venetien Stadtforschung.
Europa
Venetien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196316
Call No.: ID GF90.C67; ID:97-B3436
Status: Available

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