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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Pending this happy reformation , there were other short - term answers to the
timber famine , the most economic of which was copiously supplied by Nelson
himself , in the shape of captured French ships . Thus it was that the oak of the
Pays ...
Pending this happy reformation , there were other short - term answers to the
timber famine , the most economic of which was copiously supplied by Nelson
himself , in the shape of captured French ships . Thus it was that the oak of the
Pays ...
Pagina 175
Using an official survey of the forest , the garde - marteau would mark the
designated young trunk with the royal sign , declaring it a ward of the crown until ,
as a great centenarian , it would make its contribution to the glory of the French
Empire ...
Using an official survey of the forest , the garde - marteau would mark the
designated young trunk with the royal sign , declaring it a ward of the crown until ,
as a great centenarian , it would make its contribution to the glory of the French
Empire ...
Pagina 616
For an excellent general account of medieval forest culture ( principally French ) ,
see Roland Bechmann , Trees and Man : The Forest in the Middle Ages , trans .
Katharyn Dunham ( New York , 1990 ) . John Perlin , A Forest Journey : The ...
For an excellent general account of medieval forest culture ( principally French ) ,
see Roland Bechmann , Trees and Man : The Forest in the Middle Ages , trans .
Katharyn Dunham ( New York , 1990 ) . John Perlin , A Forest Journey : The ...
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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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