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Record Nr.

UNINA9910677204003321

Autore

Johnson Matthew <1962->

Titolo

Ideas of landscape / / Matthew Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England ; ; Carlton, Victoria : , : Blackwell Publishing, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-280-85085-X

9786610850853

0-470-79414-3

0-470-77368-5

1-4051-7833-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

330.941085

Soggetti

Land use - Great Britain

Landscape archaeology

Historical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; The Argument; Preface: Thinking about Swaledale; 1. Introduction; 2. Lonely as a Cloud; 3. A Good Pair of Boots; 4. The Loss of Innocence; 5. Landscape Archaeology Today; 6. The Politics of Landscape; 7. Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance.The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the "father of landscape history": W. G. Hoskins Argues that the strengths