Landscape and MemoryOne of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times "Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books |
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Taxation, education, the economy, and finally the political system itself all
became targets of radical change. In Lithuania Tyzenhaus pressed on busily,
carrying out the first statistical survey of the royal forests, instituting what were
proudly ...
Taxation, education, the economy, and finally the political system itself all
became targets of radical change. In Lithuania Tyzenhaus pressed on busily,
carrying out the first statistical survey of the royal forests, instituting what were
proudly ...
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So it was that Bialowieza, as well as Augustowska to the north and Swie-
tokryszka to the south, became strongholds of resistance for months, if not years,
after the main body of nationalist insurrection had disintegrated. The pattern of
1831-32 ...
So it was that Bialowieza, as well as Augustowska to the north and Swie-
tokryszka to the south, became strongholds of resistance for months, if not years,
after the main body of nationalist insurrection had disintegrated. The pattern of
1831-32 ...
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At least nine hundred villagers (not counting the Jewish deportees) were
murdered in this way. The flamboyant hunting lodges of Bialowieza became
home to the different divisions of the Nazi terror. The commander of Battalion 322
, Kobylinski ...
At least nine hundred villagers (not counting the Jewish deportees) were
murdered in this way. The flamboyant hunting lodges of Bialowieza became
home to the different divisions of the Nazi terror. The commander of Battalion 322
, Kobylinski ...
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LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusWith this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - JayLivernois - LibraryThingI find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good. Volledige review lezen
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