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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... head directs the action of the larger body politic that he embodies in his person . This embodiment is particularly important because it is via James's role as head of state that the lands of Scotland and England are united within the ...
... head of state in much the same way that the Pope , as the representative of Christ , acted as head of the church . Precedence for this conception of the sacred quality of the monarch's person was also found in Roman emperor worship ...
... head place " or capital city ) , or that the Stuarts would see the advantage of focusing authority at a British court in London . The localization of state power over a body politic in geographical space made it possible for the monarch ...
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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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