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Title Gardens of history and imagination : growing New South Wales / edited by Gretchen Poiner and Sybil Jack
Published Sydney : Sydney University Press, June 2016
The University Of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description xxiv, 277 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 27 cm
Summary Annotation. Whether on the ground or in the mind gardens carry meaning. They reflect social and aesthetic values and may express hope, anticipation or grief. Throughout history they have provided a means of physical survival. In creating and maintaining gardens people construe and construct a relationship with their environment. But there is no single meaning carried in the word 'garden': as idea and practice it reflects cultural differences in beliefs, values and social organisation. It embodies personal, community even national ways of seeing and being in the world.There are ten essays in this book, each of which examines the role of gardens and gardening in the settlement of New South Wales and in growing a colony and a state. They explore the significance of gardens for the health of the colony, for its economy, for the construction of social order and moral worth. No less do they reveal the significance of forming and reforming personal identities in this process.For the immigrants gardening was an act of settlement; it was also a statement of possession for individuals and for Britain. For a long time it was with memories of 'home', often selective and idealised, that settlers made gardens but as the colony developed its own character so did gardening possibilities and practices
Analysis Australian
Notes Illustrations on endpapers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Gardening -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Gardening -- Social aspects -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Gardens -- Social aspects -- Australia -- New South Wales.
SUBJECT New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736 -- 1788-1900
New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736
New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1788-1900
New South Wales -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495
New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- 1788-1900
New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Genre/Form History.
Author Jack, Sybil M., editor
Poiner, Gretchen, editor
ISBN 1743324561
9781743324561