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Author Olwig, Kenneth.

Title Landscape, nature, and the body politic : from Britain's renaissance to America's new world / Kenneth Robert Olwig ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002

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Description xxxii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: nature, country, and landscape -- The political landscape as polity and place -- Country and landscape -- "Masquing" the body politic of Britain -- Landscaping the body politic of the British state -- Landscaping Britain's country and nature -- Gendering the nation's natural landscape -- Landscaping racial and national progress -- The "country" of the United States contra the "landscape" of America's new world -- Conclusion: landscape, place, and the body politic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index
Subject Landscapes -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Land use -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Nature -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Landscapes -- Great Britain -- History.
Landscapes in literature.
Renaissance -- England.
Nature in literature.
Place (Philosophy)
SUBJECT Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Historical geography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006030
Americas http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004220 -- Foreign public opinion, British
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 2001006786
ISBN 0299174204
9780299174200
0299174247
9780299174248