Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society

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Syracuse University Press, Nov 15, 2005 - Social Science - 280 pages
This volume explores the relationship between siciety and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.
 

Contents

Wilderness
5
The countryside
28
City
40
Introduction
55
Townbirds of the English countryside
57
Marching through wilderness
91
Two varieties of peoples
125
Introduction
157
English novels
159
The western
178
Australian landscape painting
197
Guide to further reading
223
Bibliography
232
Index
237
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John Rennie Short is professor of geography at Syracuse University. He is the author New Worlds, New Geographies also published by Syracuse University Press.

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