Ideas of landscape / Matthew Johnson.

Main entry:

Johnson, Matthew, 1962-

Title & Author:

Ideas of landscape / Matthew Johnson.

Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.

Description:

xxii, 242 pages

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : thinking about Swaledale -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lonely as a cloud -- 3. A good pair of boots -- 4. The loss of innocence -- 5. Landscape archaeology today -- 6. The politics of landscape -- 7. Conclusion.

Summary:

"Ideas of Landscape offers a discussion of the theory and practice of landscape archaeology today. Drawing on his local experience, Matthew Johnson focuses on the so-called English landscape tradition and discusses why it is so distinctive: it stands at some distance from North American and other approaches, in which "theory" plays a more prominent role. Johnson identifies the origins of this tradition in English Romanticism, through the influence of the "father of landscape history" W. G. Hoskins among others, and argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of the Romantic movement. He offers an alternative agenda, which maps more closely on to the established empirical strengths of landscape study and is more relevant both to the thrust of interdisciplinary landscape studies and to contemporary social concerns."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781405101592 (hbk.)
1405101598 (hbk.)
1405101601 (pbk.)
9781405101608 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape archaeology Great Britain.
Land use Great Britain History.
Archéologie du paysage Grande-Bretagne.
Utilisation du sol Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Historical geography.
Land use.
Landscape archaeology.
Great Britain Historical geography.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247392
Call No.: BIB 176918
Status: Available

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