Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New WorldUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 14. 6. 2002 - 299 strán (strany) Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted through its people and established through time and precedence (e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride). Kenneth Robert Olwig’s extended exploration of these discourses is a masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies. |
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... England and all of Britain . This would mean a new British age under the law of a new Stuart dynasty born at the turn of a new century . The astronomy and astrology of Tycho Brahe would have given him every reason to believe that such a ...
... England ( Brunner [ 1965 ] 1992 , 349 ) . The word country , like the words land and Landschaft explored in the previous chapter , could thus be used at a variety of levels . At one level it could be identified with the county , and at ...
... England . One of his ancestors , the Puritan and landed gentleman James Olmsted , left England for New England in 1632 because of dissatisfaction with the Stuart regime . In 1634 , the family settled in Connecticut , where Frederick Law ...
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The Political Landscape as Polity and Place | 3 |
Country and Landscape | 43 |
Masquing the Body Politic of Britain | 62 |
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