Landscape and MemoryA.A. Knopf, 1995 - 652 pagina's "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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... Imperial Tobacco Corporation . Though lines of imperial power have always flowed along rivers , water- courses are not the only landscape to carry the freight of history . When not pad- dling in the currents of time , I was gumming ...
... Imperial Tobacco Corporation . Though lines of imperial power have always flowed along rivers , water- courses are not the only landscape to carry the freight of history . When not pad- dling in the currents of time , I was gumming ...
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... imperial staff who flocked to the forest in the sum- mer and autumn . A new and much grander " château " was built in the 1880s , three stories high beneath ornately decorated Belarussian timber gables and a fantastic , spired tower at ...
... imperial staff who flocked to the forest in the sum- mer and autumn . A new and much grander " château " was built in the 1880s , three stories high beneath ornately decorated Belarussian timber gables and a fantastic , spired tower at ...
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... imperial tradition . On the hilltop terminus of the Acqua Felice , Fontana built a great monumental castellum , embellished with fountains and statuary , that did recover some- thing of the nobility of the Roman structures . During the ...
... imperial tradition . On the hilltop terminus of the Acqua Felice , Fontana built a great monumental castellum , embellished with fountains and statuary , that did recover some- thing of the nobility of the Roman structures . During the ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
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