Landscapes of culture and nature /
"This book is a bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet
- PART I: UNCANNY: Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny; The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night
- PART II: WORLD WAR S(UB)LIME: Earth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench Warfare; Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of Cities in World War II Aerial Warfare
- PART III: PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBLIME AND UNCANNY: Wilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American West; Shooting the sunburnt country, the land of sweeping plains, the rugged mountain ranges: The Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography
- PART IV: MINDSCAPES: Land Health and Mental Health: A New Field of Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on Farms; Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future
- PART V: WATER-BODIES: A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters; Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body.