Landscape Biographies
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789048517800; 9789089644725
Subjects: Society & culture: general; Archaeology
Description: Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia.
Notes: English.