Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2015

Landscape Biographies

Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes

Edited by: Rita Hermans , Jan Kolen and Hans Renes

In the series Landscape and Heritage Studies

Volume 4 in the series Landscape and Heritage Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517800

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About this book

Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives.

Author / Editor information

Hermans Rita :

Rita Hermans is coordinator at CLUE+, the Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage at the VU University Amsterdam.Kolen Jan :

Jan Kolen is professor of Landscape Archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and director of the research institute CLUE (Research Institute for the Heritage and History of the Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment).Renes Hans :

Hans Renes is historical geographer at Utrecht University and professor in Heritage and Planning at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Reviews

"This rich book offers a way of creating fresh and engaging narratives of our landscapes."' - Graham Fairclough, Bulletin KNOB

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Landscape and Heritage Studies Open Access Download PDF	2
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Hayden Lorimer Open Access Download PDF	17
1. Landscape Biographies: Key Issues Jan Kolen and Johannes Renes Open Access Download PDF	21
2. The Marsh of Modernity. The Bog in our Brains and Bowels Edward H. Huijbens and Gisli Palsson Open Access Download PDF	49
3. Biographies of Biotopes Jan Kolen Open Access Download PDF	71
4. Automobile Authorship of Landscapes. A Biographical Vignette of Iceland’s Interior Edward Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson Open Access Download PDF	99
5. Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury Mark Gillings and Joshua Pollard Open Access Download PDF	117
6. Places That Matter. Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay Open Access Download PDF	143
7. What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? Cornelius Holtorf Open Access Download PDF	167
8. ‘To Preserve the Terrain in its Present State’. Authorship and Conservation in the Eerder Achterbroek Protected Landscape Area (The Netherlands) Michiel Purmer Open Access Download PDF	183
9. The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape. Transformation without Reconstruction at King William’s Het Loo Hanneke Ronnes Open Access Download PDF	205
10. Piet Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44. The Painting as Illustration of the Biography of Landscape Jürgen Stoye Open Access Download PDF	235
11. Shanghai: The Biography of a City David Koren Open Access Download PDF	253
12. A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape. Analysis of the Development of the Neighbourhood Buiten Wittevrouwen (Utrecht – the Netherlands) John de Jong Open Access Download PDF	283
13. The Cultural Biography of a Street. Memory, Cultural Heritage and Historical Notion of the Visserstraat in Breda, the Netherlands (1200-2000) Wim Hupperetz Open Access Download PDF	309
14. Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory Felix van Veldhoven Open Access Download PDF	327
15. Fatal Attraction. Nazi Landscapes, Modernism, and Holocaust Memory Rob van der Laarse Open Access Download PDF	345
16. A Biography for an Emerging Urban District. Discovering Open Spaces in the Former Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhage Svava Riesto Open Access Download PDF	377
17. Layered Landscapes. A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research Johannes Renes Open Access Download PDF	403
18. Biographies of Landscape: Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia. Locals’ Perceptions of Landscape Heritage Helen Sooväli-Sepping Open Access Download PDF	423

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 103
- Other: 103 halftones
Keywords: Landscape; biography; history; archaeology; human geography.

eBook

Published: May 7, 2015
ISBN: 9789048517800