Ideology and landscape in historical perspective : essays on the meanings of some places in the past
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Ideology and landscape in historical perspective : essays on the meanings of some places in the past
(Cambridge studies in historical geography, 18)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 1992. This digitally printed first paperback version 2006" -- T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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, 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 USA, 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. The book is introduced by an essay which explores the dialectical understanding of landscapes, and landscapes as expressions of the connection of an ideology to a quest for order, to an assertion of authority and to a project of totalization. The issues raised by landscapes and their meanings - issues of individual and collective action, of objective knowing, of materialist and idealist explanation - are fundamental not only to historical geography but to any humanistic study, and render the geographical study of landscapes of interest to scholars in many disciplines.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: on ideology and landscape Alan R. H. Baker
- 1. Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem Rehav Rubin
- 2. Ideological contexts and the reconstruction of biblical landscapes in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Dr Edward Wells and the historical geography of the Holy Land Robin A. Butlin
- 3. Land-God-man: concepts of land ownership in traditional cultures in Eretz-Israel Ruth Kark
- 4. Religious ideology and landscape formation: the case of the German Templars in Eretz-Israel Yossi Ben-Artzi
- 5. Planned temple towns and Brahmin villages as spatial expressions of the ritual politics of medieval kingdoms in South India Hans-Jurgen Nitz
- 6. Territorial strategies applied to captive peoples D. W. Meinig
- 7. Ideology and landscape of settler colonialism in Virginia and Dutch South Africa: a comparative analysis Leonard Guelke
- 8. Municipal sanitary ideology and the control of the urban environment in colonial Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh
- 9. Ideology and the landscape of British Palestine, 1918-1929 Gideon Biger
- 10. Ideology, identity, landscape and society in the lower colonies of British North America, 1840-1860 Graeme Wynn
- 11. Interpreting a nation's identity: artists as creators of national consciousness Brian S. Osborne
- 12. Collective consciousness and the local landscape: national ideology and the commune council of Mesland (Loir-et-Cher) as landscape architect during the nineteenth century Alan R. H. Baker
- 13. A contrast of Old World ideology: Germans and Scotch-Irish in the Ozarks Russel L. Gerlach
- 14. Ideology in the planned order upon the land: the example of Germany Dietrich Denecke
- 15. Parading: a lively tradition in early Victorian Toronto Peter G. Goheen
- Index.
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