| Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of Some Places in the Past Contributor(s): Baker, Alan R. H. (Editor), Biger, Gideon (Editor), Dennis, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521410320 ISBN-13: 9780521410328 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $151.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning: praxis is itself symbolic, and all landscapes are symbolic in practice. Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective draws together fifteen historical geographers to examine landscapes as messages to be decoded, and as signs to be deciphered. The range of examples is wide in terms of period, from the medieval to the modern, and of place, embracing the United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, France and Germany. Each essay addresses a specific problem, but collectively they are principally concerned with the ideologies of religion and of politics, of church and state, and their historical impress upon landscapes. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - History | Historical Geography |
| Dewey: 304.2 |
| LCCN: 91040968 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.57 lbs) 372 pages |