Landscape and Memory"Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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emblem for the American Republic on the brink of the Civil War : a botanical Fort
Sumter . ... the pictures as fully the equal of the greatest productions of Western
art and their subjects , the authentic , living monuments of pristine America .
emblem for the American Republic on the brink of the Civil War : a botanical Fort
Sumter . ... the pictures as fully the equal of the greatest productions of Western
art and their subjects , the authentic , living monuments of pristine America .
Pagina 195
But the great column that towered above him , almost an extension of his own
heroic American personality , was deep red ... chronology : not the chronology of
classical European civilization , but the chronology of wild nature , America ' s
own ...
But the great column that towered above him , almost an extension of his own
heroic American personality , was deep red ... chronology : not the chronology of
classical European civilization , but the chronology of wild nature , America ' s
own ...
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And since almost a quarter of all American exports at the time were shipped to
the Mediterranean , their ships , unprotected by naval force , had become game
for the corsairs . For the corsair princes it was an old pursuit , hallowed by time
and ...
And since almost a quarter of all American exports at the time were shipped to
the Mediterranean , their ships , unprotected by naval force , had become game
for the corsairs . For the corsair princes it was an old pursuit , hallowed by time
and ...
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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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