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Author:

Olwig, Kenneth.

Title:

Landscape, nature, and the body politic : from Britain's renaissance to America's new world / Kenneth Robert Olwig ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan.

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xxxii, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Landscape--History.--Great Britain--History.
Land use--History.--Great Britain--History.
Nature--History.--Great Britain--History.
Landscape--Great Britain--History.
Landscape in literature
Renaissance--England.
Nature in literature.
Place (Philosophy)
Great Britain--Historical geography.
America--Foreign public opinion, British.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: nature, country, and landscape -- The political landscape as polity and place -- Country and landscape -- "Masquing" the body politic of Britain -- Landscaping the body politic of the British state -- Landscaping Britain's country and nature -- Gendering the nation's natural landscape -- Landscaping racial and national progress -- The "country" of the United States contra the "landscape" of America's new world -- Conclusion: landscape, place, and the body politic.

ISBN:

9780299174200 (alk. paper)
0299174204 (alk. paper)
9780299174248 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299174247 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48451186

LCCN:

2001006786

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)