Title: California Mission Landscapes
Description: "A history of California mission landscapes from their origins as colonial outposts to their reinvention as heritage sites though the late nineteenth and twentieth century. ... Elizabeth Kryder-Reid argues that landscape design has long recast the mission from sites of colonial oppression to aestheticized and nostalgia-drenched monasteries." --back cover.
Subjects: Spanish mission buildings, california, Cultural property, Spanish mission buildings, Cultural landscapes, ARCHITECTURE, Landscape, HISTORY, State & Local, West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), General, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Political aspects, Social aspects, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / History / General