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The Invention of the English Landscape : c. 1700-1939 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Borsay, Peter (Author), Sweet, Rosemary (Author)
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Gardens, English.
Landscape gardening > History > 18th century.
Landscape gardening > History > 19th century.
England.
Jardins anglais.
Angleterre.
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
1700-1899
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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