The making of the Cretan landscape

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The making of the Cretan landscape

Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1996

  • : pbk
  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780719036460

Description

This text aims to help the visitor to Crete understand its landscape. The authors explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create today's landscape. They explain the formation and ecology of Crete's mountains and coastline, and examine contemporary threats to the island's natural beauty. The book draws on a range of evidence - field observations, archaeology, ancient and medieval documents, place-names, tree-rings and standing buildings. It should be of interest to general readers and travellers with an interest in Crete's landscape, natural history and history; and to students and scholars of Mediterranean landscape history, geography, historical ecology and archaeology.

Table of Contents

  • Chronology
  • history, pseudo-history and the use of evidence
  • the environment - making the mountains, weather and water
  • the inhabitants - wild animals, wild trees and plants, domestic animals and plants, people and settlements
  • the landscape - place-names, vegetation, vegetation history, terraces, fields and enclosures, boots, mules and roads, shepherding, buildings, sacred landscapes
  • unusual places - the high mountains, coasts and the sea, islets
  • the future - conservation and the future.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780719036477

Description

This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum. Asylum discourses, with their many harrowing stories, have proved a powerful platform for discussion of the sexual rights of those who are not citizens. The forces involved, from the state to LGBT or asylum activists, compete with each other for the redefinition of what progressive sexual politics should be. This book assesses the consequences of persisting colonial imaginaries on the representation of sexual freedom, as well as of the neoliberal management of asylum for LGBT asylum seekers. The book explores the contradictory role of political emotions such as sympathy, which constitutes both a basis for solidarity and a means of dispossessing claimants of their agency, and finally discusses how optimism can be queered in asylum discourses. -- .

Table of Contents

  • Chronology
  • history, pseudo-history and the use of evidence
  • the environment - making the mountains, weather and water
  • the inhabitants - wild animals, wild trees and plants, domestic animals and plants, people and settlements
  • the landscape - place-names, vegetation, vegetation history, terraces, fields and enclosures, boots, mules and roads, shepherding, buildings, sacred landscapes
  • unusual places - the high mountains, coasts and the sea, islets
  • the future - conservation and the future.

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