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1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Penn studies in landscape architecture |
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Penn studies in landscape architecture.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Connective landscapes : mobilizing space in the transcultural early modern / Stephen H. Whiteman -- Part I. Circulating discourses -- Chapter 2. From imperial to confessional landscapes : Engelbert Kaempfer and the disenchantment of nature in Safavid and Tokugawa cities / Robert Batchelor -- Chapter 3. Constructing an authentic China : Henri Bertin and Chinese architecture in eighteenth-century France / John Finlay -- Part II. Constructing identites -- Chapter 4. Landscape and the articulation of the Imperium : Safavid Isfahan / Seyed Mohammad Ali Emrani -- Chapter 5. Bridges into metaphorical space : Hideyoshi's urban landscapes at Osaka / Anton Schweizer -- Part III. Defining margins -- Chapter 6. Views of victory : the landscapes of the Battle of the Boyne / Finola O'Kane -- Chapter 7. Delineating the sea : maritime law and painting in William van de Velde the Elder's Sea-Drafts / Caroline Fowler -- Chapter 8. Dutch representations of Southeast Asia / Larry Silver -- Part IV. Imagining spaces -- Chapter 9. Landscape and emperorship in the connected Qing : Leng Mei's View of Rehe / Stephen H. Whiteman -- Chapter 10. The princely landscape as stage : early modern courts in enchanted gardens / Katrina Grant -- Contributors -- Index -- Color illustrations follow page |
| Summary |
"In Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World, contributors explore the role of landscape in the articulation and expression of imperial identity and the mediation of relationships between the court and its many audiences in the early modern world. Nine focused studies from East andSouth Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Landscapes -- Political aspects -- Eurasia -- History
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Landscape architecture -- Political aspects -- Eurasia -- History
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects.
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Landscapes in art.
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Authority.
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ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
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Authority
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Landscapes in art
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Landscapes -- Political aspects
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects
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Eurasia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whiteman, Stephen H., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781512823592 |
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1512823597 |
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