Culture, Landscape, and the Environment The Linacre Lectures 1997 [Hardcover]

The contributors to this volume move through time and space--from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from industrial Victorian England to Aboriginal Australia--to compare the ways in which the environment is constructed in different ways across cultures.

IntroductionHoward Morphy & Kate Flint
1. 'In England's Green and Pleasant Land': The English Enlightenment and the Environment,Roy Porter
2. Environments Within: An Ethnographic Commentary on Scale,Marilyn Strathern
3. Ways of Place-making,Fred R. Myers
4. Landscapes with People,Barry Cunliffe
5. The French Nineteenth-century Landscape,John House
6. Technology and Text: Glass Consciousness and Nineteenth-century Culture,Isobel Armstrong
7. Our Animal Environment,Harriet Rivo
8. Environment as Heritage,David Lowenthal