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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... Empire thus also involved the " translation of empire " ( translatio imperii ) to a point farther west ( Yates 1975 , 38-39 ) . This spatial movement followed the cycle of the sun . The Romans had argued that their empire had been ...
... Empire , but into British founders of the British Empire . The temple for the worthy British at Stowe was dominated by the busts of figures who personified the principles of the Glorious Revolution , but it also included a bust of Inigo ...
... empire from the pas- toral golden age of shepherds , to the age of the hardworking farmers de- scribed in the Georgics , and , finally , to the age of empire traced in the Aeneid ( Olwig 1984 , 1-10 ) . From the typical landscaped ...
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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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