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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... idea of a corpo- rate body has become just another abstraction . At that time , however , the idea of the state as a corpus or body was more than a metaphor ; this is why the iconographic symbolism used to express this idea was so ...
... idea of the kind of arguments which Olmsted presented to his many influential friends and acquaintances as he worked to establish a park idea that he felt was " the destiny of the New World " ( Olmsted [ 1865 ] 1990 , 506 ) . According ...
... idea that the geographical landscape of a conti- nent , or a group of islands , can unify its settlers as a nation is that this idea ignores the presence of other nations ( e.g. the Spanish ) , as well as indige- nous peoples who might ...
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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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