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Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of some Places in the Past »

Authors: Alan R. H. Baker (Editor), Gideon Biger (Editor), Richard Dennis
ISBN-13: 9780521410328, ISBN-10: 0521410320
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Alan R. H. Baker

Book Synopsis

The issues raised by landscapes and their meanings are fundamental not only to historical geography but to any humanistic study, and render the geographical study of landscapes of interest to scholars in many disciplines.

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	List of contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: on ideology and landscape	1
1	Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem	15
2	Ideological contexts and the reconstruction of Biblical landscapes in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Dr Edward Wells and the historical geography of the Holy Land	31
3	Land-God-man: concepts of land ownership in traditional cultures in Eretz-Israel	63
4	Religious ideology and landscape formation: the case of the German Templars in Eretz-Israel	83
5	Planned temple towns and Brahmin villages as spatial expressions of the ritual politics of medieval kingdoms in South India	107
6	Territorial strategies applied to captive peoples	125
7	Ideology and landscape of settler colonialism in Virginia and Dutch South Africa: a comparative analysis	137
8	Municipal sanitary ideology and the control of the urban environment in colonial Singapore	148
9	Ideology and the landscape of British Palestine, 1918-1929	173
10	Ideology, identity, landscape and society in the lower colonies of British North America, 1840-1860	197
11	Interpreting a nation's identity: artists as creators of national consciousness	230
12	Collective consciousness and the local landscape: national ideology and the commune council of Mesland (Loir-et-Cher) as landscape architect during the nineteenth century	255
13	A contrast of Old World ideology: Germans and Scotch-Irish in the Ozarks	289
14	Ideology in the planned order upon the land: the example of Germany	303
15	Parading: a lively tradition in early Victorian Toronto	330
	Index	352

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Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of some Places in the Past »

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