Ideas of Landscape Paperback / softback
by Matthew (University of Southampton) Johnson
Paperback / softback
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Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeologyTakes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the “father of landscape history”: W.
G. HoskinsArgues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of RomanticismOffers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:11/08/2006
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- ISBN:9781405101608
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:11/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405101608