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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By the time William the Conqueror arrived on the Sussex coast , no more than 15 percent of English territory would have been wooded . According to Oliver Rackham , even the Romans , whom Joseph Conrad and others imagined shivering with ...
By the time William the Conqueror arrived on the Sussex coast , no more than 15 percent of English territory would have been wooded . According to Oliver Rackham , even the Romans , whom Joseph Conrad and others imagined shivering with ...
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As Wyman Herendeen points out , English history itself is made to travel with the current . 30 The confluence of waters , moving irresistibly to the sea , seems to embody both the natural harmony of the English landscape and an end to ...
As Wyman Herendeen points out , English history itself is made to travel with the current . 30 The confluence of waters , moving irresistibly to the sea , seems to embody both the natural harmony of the English landscape and an end to ...
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And when they petitioned the king to build a Calvinist chapel , the fears of the English rivermen that they were being colonized began to be voiced . Was there not , after all , something conspiratorial about the Dutch actually wringing ...
And when they petitioned the king to build a Calvinist chapel , the fears of the English rivermen that they were being colonized began to be voiced . Was there not , after all , something conspiratorial about the Dutch actually wringing ...
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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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Introduction | 3 |
Prologue The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
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