Landscape, nature, and the body politic
Subtitle: from Britain's renaissance to America's new world
By: Kenneth Robert Olwig ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Landscape -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Land use -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Nature -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Landscape -- Great Britain -- History; Landscape in literature; Renaissance -- England; Nature in literature; Place (Philosophy); Great Britain -- Historical geography; America -- Foreign public opinion, British
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: nature, country, and landscape; title: The political landscape as polity and place; title: Country and landscape; title: "Masquing" the body politic of Britain; title: Landscaping the body politic of the British state; title: Landscaping Britain's country and nature; title: Gendering the nation's natural landscape; title: Landscaping racial and national progress; title: The "country" of the United States contra the "landscape" of America's new world; title: Conclusion: landscape, place, and the body politic.