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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Pagina 191
... American Republic can explain Abra- ham Lincoln , in the midst of the Civil War , signing an unprecedented bill that on July 1 , 1864 , granted them to the State of California " for the benefit of the people , for their resort and ...
... American Republic can explain Abra- ham Lincoln , in the midst of the Civil War , signing an unprecedented bill that on July 1 , 1864 , granted them to the State of California " for the benefit of the people , for their resort and ...
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... American personality , was deep red rather than gray , and above all it spoke of an elemental chronology : not the chronol- ogy of classical European civilization , but the chronology of wild nature , Amer- ica's own time scale ...
... American personality , was deep red rather than gray , and above all it spoke of an elemental chronology : not the chronol- ogy of classical European civilization , but the chronology of wild nature , Amer- ica's own time scale ...
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... American hostages had been taken , emissaries had been sent to Algiers in predictably fruitless attempts to appeal to the dey's nonexistent humanity . And because American naval force was so thinly stretched , threats were largely empty ...
... American hostages had been taken , emissaries had been sent to Algiers in predictably fruitless attempts to appeal to the dey's nonexistent humanity . And because American naval force was so thinly stretched , threats were largely empty ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
ii | 43 |
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża Big Trees bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Christian church classical climb color illus cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates emblem Empire England English essay famous Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king land landscape Lithuanian living London memory Mickiewicz Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish primitive Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed symbols Tacitus temple Thames Thomas Thomas Cole thought timber tion tradition trans turned University valley village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York Yosemite