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Landscape, nature, and the body politic : from Britain's renaissance to America's new world
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- Creator
- Kenneth Robert Olwig ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xxxii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0299174247, 9780299174248, 9780299174231, 9780299174200, 1306981042, 0299174204, 0299174239
- OCLC
- ocn885331569, ocm48451186, ocn927484500
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.
- Introduction: nature, country, and landscape -- The political landscape as polity and place -- Country and landscape -- "Masquing" the body politic of Britain -- Landscaping the body politic of the British state -- Landscaping Britain's country and nature -- Gendering the nation's natural landscape -- Landscaping racial and national progress -- The "country" of the United States contra the "landscape" of America's new world -- Conclusion: landscape, place, and the body politic
Subjects
- Landscapes -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
- Land use -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
- Nature -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
- Landscapes -- Great Britain -- History.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Nature in literature.
- Place (Philosophy)
- Great Britain -- Historical geography.
- America -- Foreign public opinion, British.