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Past in Contemporary Societyby Peter Fowler
Routledge 1992; US$ 55.95Fowler assesses the influence of our heritage in the last decade of the 20th century, and, with a wide range of examples, judges the consequences of the increasing pressures of the heritage industry, providing suggestions for responsible development. more...
The Hutchinson Guide to Britainby Helicon Publishing
Helicon Publishing 2005; US$ 25.70Traveller's guide to Britain's places, history, and culture. more...
Frommer's® England 2007 by Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 22.99Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's England 2007 features gorgeous color photos and maps, a detachable foldout map of London, and details on all of the country's top cities, villages, gardens, countryside destinations, and more. more...
Ideas of Landscapeby Matthew Johnson
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 108.95Ideas 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 and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of Romanticism Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology... more...
Missingby Kent Publishing
Saddleback Educational Publishing 2005; US$ 4.95This Designed with reluctant readers in mind, these riveting 64-page softcover books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and whi more...
The Wild Placesby Robert Macfarlane
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 12.99"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." -Bill McKibben Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance. A unique travelogue that will intrigue readers of natural history and adventure, The Wild... more...
Conservation in the Age of Consensusby John Pendlebury
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 53.95This new text on the subject of conservation in the built environment provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation conntecting it with a societal and political forces. more...
Our Old Homeby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99Our Old Home is the last Nathaniel Hawthorne''s works to be published while he was still alive, completed in the Tower of The Wayside after Hawthorne''s return from Europe. I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to connect your name with some book of mine, in commemoration of an early friendship that has grown old between two individuals of widely dissimilar pursuits and fortunes. I only wish that the offering were a worthier one than this volume of sketches, which certainly are not of a kind likely to prove interesting to a statesman in retirement, inasmuch as they meddle with... more...
Landscape and Englishnessby David Matless
Reaktion Books 2005; US$ 31.00Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body. Landscape and Englishness is extensively illustrated and draws on a wide range of material - topographical guides, health manuals, paintings, poetry, architectural polemic, photography, nature guides and novels. The author first examines the inter-war period, showing how a vision of Englishness and landscape as both modern and traditional, urban and rural, progressive and preservationist, took shape around debates over building in... more...
Shadow Sitesby Kitty Hauser
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 150.00In mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into these evocative interpretations and looks at how they affected the way the landscape was seen. - ;At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape.... more...









