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Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes / ed. by Jan Kolen, Rita Hermans, Hans Renes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Landscape and Heritage Research ; 4Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 103 halftonesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048517800
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2
LOC classification:
  • GF41 .L353 2015
Other classification:
  • RB 10850
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Landscape and Heritage Studies -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Landscape Biographies: Key Issues -- 2. The Marsh of Modernity. The Bog in our Brains and Bowels -- 3. Biographies of Biotopes -- 4. Automobile Authorship of Landscapes. A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's Interior -- 5. Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury -- 6. Places That Matter. Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective -- 7. What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? -- 8. 'To Preserve the Terrain in its Present State'. Authorship and Conservation in the Eerder Achterbroek Protected Landscape Area (The Netherlands) -- 9. The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape. Transformation without Reconstruction at King William's Het Loo -- 10. Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44. The Painting as Illustration of the Biography of Landscape -- 11. Shanghai: The Biography of a City -- 12. A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape. Analysis of the Development of the Neighbourhood Buiten Wittevrouwen (Utrecht - the Netherlands) -- 13. The Cultural Biography of a Street. Memory, Cultural Heritage and Historical Notion of the Visserstraat in Breda, the Netherlands (1200-2000) -- 14. Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory -- 15. Fatal Attraction. Nazi Landscapes, Modernism, and Holocaust Memory -- 16. A Biography for an Emerging Urban District. Discovering Open Spaces in the Former Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhage -- 17. Layered Landscapes. A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research -- 18. Biographies of Landscape: Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia. Locals' Perceptions of Landscape Heritage
Summary: Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia.
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Frontmatter -- Landscape and Heritage Studies -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Landscape Biographies: Key Issues -- 2. The Marsh of Modernity. The Bog in our Brains and Bowels -- 3. Biographies of Biotopes -- 4. Automobile Authorship of Landscapes. A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's Interior -- 5. Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury -- 6. Places That Matter. Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective -- 7. What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? -- 8. 'To Preserve the Terrain in its Present State'. Authorship and Conservation in the Eerder Achterbroek Protected Landscape Area (The Netherlands) -- 9. The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape. Transformation without Reconstruction at King William's Het Loo -- 10. Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44. The Painting as Illustration of the Biography of Landscape -- 11. Shanghai: The Biography of a City -- 12. A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape. Analysis of the Development of the Neighbourhood Buiten Wittevrouwen (Utrecht - the Netherlands) -- 13. The Cultural Biography of a Street. Memory, Cultural Heritage and Historical Notion of the Visserstraat in Breda, the Netherlands (1200-2000) -- 14. Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory -- 15. Fatal Attraction. Nazi Landscapes, Modernism, and Holocaust Memory -- 16. A Biography for an Emerging Urban District. Discovering Open Spaces in the Former Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhage -- 17. Layered Landscapes. A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research -- 18. Biographies of Landscape: Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia. Locals' Perceptions of Landscape Heritage

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Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia.

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