The Invention of the English Landscape : c. 1700-1939 /: c. 1700-1939. (2023)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The Invention of the English Landscape : c. 1700-1939 /: c. 1700-1939. (2023)
- Main Title:
- The Invention of the English Landscape : c. 1700-1939
- Further Information:
- Note: Peter Borsay with Rosemary Sweet.
- Authors:
- Borsay, Peter
Sweet, Rosemary - Contents:
- Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Revealing the early modern landscape -- Exploration and tourism -- The discovery of the natural landscape -- Exploring the human landscape -- 3 Ideas and representations -- The Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism -- Representations -- 4 Reconfiguring the landscape -- Ideas -- Cultural media -- Production and performance -- Reception -- 5 New geographies and topographies -- Imagined spaces -- Town: Grey space -- Country: Green space Water: Blue space -- Frameworks of spaces -- 6 Timescapes -- Landscapes of memory and myth -- stories and landscape -- Deep history: Geology and natural history -- Pre-history -- Recent pasts and competing pasts -- Old towns and villages -- Landscape as modernism -- the modernist seaside and countryside -- 7 Economic and social change -- Industrialization -- Urbanization -- Leisure -- 8 The transport revolution and the journey -- The transport revolution and recreational travel -- Walking -- Experiencing the journey -- 9 Identities -- Landscape, identities and nation -- The British paradox Race and empire -- Religion, class and gender -- 10 Conclusion: The Second World War and beyond -- The Second World War -- Modernity and the post-war decades -- Towards the millennium and beyond -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Imprint
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Subjects:
- 304.20941
Gardens, English
Landscape gardening -- History -- 18th century
Landscape gardening -- History -- 19th century
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
British & Irish history
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Gardens, English
Landscape gardening
England
England
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350031685
1350031682
1350031666
9781350031661 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350031654
9781350031661
9781350031678
9781350269767 - Notes:
- Note: Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 7th, 2023).
- Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.792747
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- 20_041.xml