Imagining the Holy Land : maps, models, and fantasy travels / Burke O. Long.

Main entry:

Long, Burke O.

Title & Author:

Imagining the Holy Land : maps, models, and fantasy travels / Burke O. Long.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : a matter of space -- Lakeside at Chautauqua's holy land -- Starred and striped holy lands -- Parlor tours of the holy land -- Landscapes of democracy -- Mapmakers and their holy lands -- Epilogue : a touch of the real.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The photographs, maps, travelers' accounts, and physical reconstructions that are the subject of this book once fired the popular imagination with fantasies of a place called "the Holy Land." It was a singular space of religious imagining, multi-layered and charged with ideology and symbolism. As Burke O. Long shows, there are many holy lands, and they have been visualized in many ways since the nineteenth century. At the Chautauqua Institution in New York, visitors could walk down Palestine Avenue to "Palestine" and a model of Jerusalem, or along Morris Avenue to a scale model of the "Jewish Tabernacle." At the St.
Louis World's Fair of 1904, a replica of Ottoman Jerusalem covered eleven acres, while today, 300 miles to the southeast, a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stands above a modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0253341361 (alk. paper)
9780253341365 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Chautauqua Institution.
American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem Faculty Attitudes.
American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Stereoscopic views Palestine History.
Vues stéréoscopiques Palestine Histoire.
Cultural studies USA.
Christianity USA.
Maps
Palestine in popular culture
Public opinion, American
Stereoscopic views
Universities and colleges Faculty Attitudes
Kartografie
Palästinabild
Biblische Geografie
Stereoscopic views-Israel.
Palestine in popular culture United States.
Palestine In popular culture.
Palestine Foreign public opinion, American.
Palestine Maps History.
Eretz Israel In popular culture United States.
Eretz Israel History Maps.
Middle East Palestine
Palästina
USA
Israel Description and travel.
Israel Foreign public opinion, American.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228528
Call No.: E169.04 .L657 2003
Status: Available

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