Landscapes of Culture and Nature [electronic resource] /
Giblett, R.author.
A bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-202) and index.
Quaking zone : where body, land, and mind meet -- Alligators, crocodiles, and the monstrous uncanny -- The nether world of the uncanny city of dreadful night -- Earth and water in the slime of World War I trench warfare -- Fire and air in the sublime bombing of World War II aerial warfare -- The elements and the senses in world warfare -- Wilderness to wasteland : the sublime, the picturesque, and the uncanny in the photography of the American West -- Shooting the sunburnt country, the land of sweeping plains, the rugged mountains ranges : the role of Australian landscape and wilderness photography in promoting environmental sustainability and in forming a new national identity -- Land health and mental health : a new field for research nurturing biodiversity and well-being on farms -- Terrifying prospects and resources of hope : minescapes, timescapes, and the aesthetics of the future -- A natural history of natural, unnatural, and national disasters -- Black and white water : cross-cultural colour-coding of the life-blood of the earth-body.
A bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
Photography.
Intellectual life—History.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Cultural studies.
Islands of the Pacific—History.
Ecology .
Photography.
Intellectual Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Cultural Studies.
Australasian History.
Ecology.