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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... Polish queen Jadwiga , creating by their union the Great Polish realm . Over time the cultural identity of the south and west of the coun- try was colonized by Poland . Its landowning gentry came to speak and write Polish and call ...
... Polish queen Jadwiga , creating by their union the Great Polish realm . Over time the cultural identity of the south and west of the coun- try was colonized by Poland . Its landowning gentry came to speak and write Polish and call ...
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... Polish Jews became themselves doubly flayed by history : martyrs ' martyrs . Though the first Polish pogrom took place in Warsaw in 1794 while the nation was in its termi- nal throes , the riot remained an isolated incident and its ...
... Polish Jews became themselves doubly flayed by history : martyrs ' martyrs . Though the first Polish pogrom took place in Warsaw in 1794 while the nation was in its termi- nal throes , the riot remained an isolated incident and its ...
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... Polish tourists . The electors of Saxony , all of Europe knew , had only been made kings of Poland by grace of the Russian Empire , formidably increased in territory and military strength . And since true Polish sovereignty had already ...
... Polish tourists . The electors of Saxony , all of Europe knew , had only been made kings of Poland by grace of the Russian Empire , formidably increased in territory and military strength . And since true Polish sovereignty had already ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
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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