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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32 On the Nile the life - assuring obligations of reverence were ritually fulfilled by
priests at stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these
chiselled tables from the region of Mendes survive , and have been carefully
discussed ...
32 On the Nile the life - assuring obligations of reverence were ritually fulfilled by
priests at stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these
chiselled tables from the region of Mendes survive , and have been carefully
discussed ...
Pagina 262
And it was precisely the denial of this sovereign possession to Greeks , Romans ,
French , and British that made the Nile so tantalizing , so treacherous in a word ,
so Cleopatran . Cleopatra , “ her baleful beauty painted up beyond measure ...
And it was precisely the denial of this sovereign possession to Greeks , Romans ,
French , and British that made the Nile so tantalizing , so treacherous in a word ,
so Cleopatran . Cleopatra , “ her baleful beauty painted up beyond measure ...
Pagina 264
Unlike the floods of misery and destruction he had seen in Europe , the Nile ' s
inundation was a “ flood of joy . ” Even the horrid things dwelling in the river ' s
muddy depths attested to its miraculous vitality . Nothing , for example , in all
creation ...
Unlike the floods of misery and destruction he had seen in Europe , the Nile ' s
inundation was a “ flood of joy . ” Even the horrid things dwelling in the river ' s
muddy depths attested to its miraculous vitality . Nothing , for example , in all
creation ...
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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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