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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... united through diking and draining the shallow marshy area at the mouth of the Eider . Each of these districts had its own representative council or assembly with judicial func- tions , which Trap terms a " Thing " and which he ...
... United States contra the " Landscape " of America's New World The ideas of landscape , country , and nature that had initially developed within a European context provided an important basis for the creation of an American national ...
... United States means that there is a constant tension between the national state and the political communities united within it . There is , on the one hand , the American nation - state , which has been defined in terms of a continental ...
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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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