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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... rule over the geographical territory of Britain , within the bounds of which England and Scotland would be unified under the divine right of his law . In Denmark he found a Dano - Norwegian state that had succeeded in uniting a ...
... rule according to his statutory law would be correspondingly greater , however , in a united Britain , because the monarch was legally en- titled to rule in both countries . This conflict between James and Par- liament concerning the ...
... rule ( the word region comes from the Latin regere meaning " to rule ” ) . 7. The Oxford English Dictionary lists regular references to this use of county up until 1549 ; the last reference is from 1700 . 8. The designation Fylke ...
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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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