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People, Land and Time - An Historical Introduction to the Relations Between Landscape, Culture and Environment (Hardcover)
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People, Land and Time - An Historical Introduction to the Relations Between Landscape, Culture and Environment (Hardcover)
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This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of
culture and society with the landscape and environment. It offers a
broad-based view of this theme by drawing upon the varied
traditions of landscape interpretation, from the traditional
cultural geography of scholars such as Carl Sauer to the 'new'
cultural geography which has emerged in the 1990s. The book
comprises three major, interwoven strands. First, fundamental
factors such as environmental change and population pressure are
addressed in order to sketch the contextual variables of landscapes
production. Second, the evolution of the humanised landscape is
discussed in terms of processes such as clearing wood, the impact
of agriculture, the creation of urban-industrial complexes, and is
also treated in historical periods such as the pre-industrial, the
modern and the post-modern. From this we can see the cultural and
economic signatures of human societies at different times and
places. Finally, examples of landscape types are selected in order
to illustrate the ways in which landscape both represents and
participates in social change. The authors use a wide range of
source material, ranging from place-names and pollen diagrams to
literature and heritage monuments. Superbly illustrated throughout,
it is essential reading for first-year undergraduates studying
historical geography, human geography, cultural geography or
landscape history.
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