Europe S Early Fieldscapes

Author : Yue Zhuang,Andrea Riemenschnitter
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789814722582

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Entangled Landscapes by Yue Zhuang,Andrea Riemenschnitter Pdf

The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500–1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinoisand Européenerie are well documented, this book moves further to examine the role of the exchange in identity formation in early modern China and Europe. Proposing the new paradigm of “entangled landscapes”, drawing from the concept of “entangled histories”, this book looks at landscape design, cartography, literature, philosophy and material culture of the period. Challenging simplistic, binary treatments of the movements of “influences” between China and Europe, Entangled Landscapes reveals how landscape exchanges entailed complex processes of appropriation, crossover and transformation, through which Chinese and European identities were formed. Exploring these complex processes via three themes—empire building, mediators’ constraints, and aesthetic negotiations, this work breaks new ground in landscape and East-West studies. Interdisciplinary and revisionist in its thrust, it will also benefit scholars of history, human geography and postcolonial studies.

Author : Salvatore Ciriacono
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845450656

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Building on Water by Salvatore Ciriacono Pdf

A fundamental natural resource, water and its use not only reflect "modes of production" but also that complex interplay between resources and their exploitation (and domination) by various social agents, who in their turn are inevitably influenced by the abundance or rarity of water supplies. Focusing on scientific, social and economic issues from the 16th to the 19th century, the author, one of Italy's leading historians in this field, looks at the innumerable conflicts that arose over water resources and the environmental impact of projects intended to control them. Venice and Holland are undoubtedly the two most fascinating cases of societies "built on water," with the conquest of vast expanses of marshland - either inland or on the coast (the Dutch polders or the Venetian lagoon) – not only stimulating agricultural production, but also nurturing a deeply-felt relationship between the local populations and the element of water itself. The author rounds off his study by looking at the influence the hydraulic technology developed in Holland would have on many European countries (France, England and Germany in particular) and at questions raised by contemporaries about the environmental impact of agricultural progress and its effects upon the social-economic equilibria within the communities concerned.

Author : Christopher Chippindale,George Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134517336

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European Landscapes of Rock-Art by Christopher Chippindale,George Nash Pdf

Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and envisioned their own worlds. European Landscapes of Rock-Art provides a number of case studies, covering arange of European locations including Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, Scotland and Spain, which collectively address the chronology and geography of rock-art as well as providing an essential series of methodologies for future debate. Each author provides a synthesis that focuses on landscape as an essential part of rock-art construction. From the paintings and carved images of prehistoric Scandinavia to Second World War grafitti on the German Reichstag, this volume looks beyond the art to the society that made it. The papers in this volume also challenge the traditional views of how rock-art is recorded. Throughout, there is an emphasis on informal and informed methodologies. The authors skilfully discuss subjectivity and its relationship with landscape since personal experience, from prehistoric times to the present day, plays an essential role in the interpretation of art itself. The emphasis is on location, on the intentionality of the artist, and on the needs of the audience. This exciting volume is a crucial addition to rock-art literature and landscape archaeology. It will provide new material for a lively and greatly debated subject and as such will be essential for academics, non-academics and commentators of rock art in general.

Author : Peter F. Ainsworth,Tom Scott
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053095892

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Regions and Landscapes by Peter F. Ainsworth,Tom Scott Pdf

The present volume brings together European and American scholars from a range of complementary disciplines (cartographers, economic and social historians, historians of social and political institutions, economic geographers, historians of art and textual analysts), all of whom are interested in exploring potential interconnections between their respective approaches to the study of regions and landscapes, 'real' or imagined, in the early modern and medieval periods.Focusing on the Rhineland and Low Countries, the essays offer a collective, interdisciplinary approach which aims to shed light on at least some of the complexities underlying any attempt to analyse what we might understand by landscape or region in a particular historical context.

Author : Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,Bas Pedroli,G. Bas M. Pedroli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107070691

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European Landscapes in Transition by Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,Bas Pedroli,G. Bas M. Pedroli Pdf

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

Author : Renzo Dubbini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226167374

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Geography of the Gaze by Renzo Dubbini Pdf

Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Renzo Dubbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the ways natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with the idea of the "view," explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityscapes inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. A marvelous history of viewing, Geography of the Gaze will interest everyone from scientists to artists.

Author : Urban Emanuelsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:092583264

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The Rural Landscapes of Europe by Urban Emanuelsson Pdf

Author : Yue Zhuang,Andrea Riemenschnitter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9813250364

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Entangled Landscapes by Yue Zhuang,Andrea Riemenschnitter Pdf

The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500-1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinois and Européenerie are well documented, this book moves further to examine the role of the exchange in identity formation in early modern China and Europe. Proposing the new paradigm of "entangled landscapes", drawing from the concept of "entangled histories", this book looks at landscape design, cartography, literature, philosophy and material culture of the period. Challenging simplistic, binary treatments of the movements of "influences" between China and Europe, Entangled Landscapes reveals how landscape exchanges entailed complex processes of appropriation, crossover and transformation, through which Chinese and European identities were formed. Exploring these complex processes via three themes--empire building, mediators' constraints, and aesthetic negotiations, this work breaks new ground in landscape and East-West studies.--

Author : Geoff Bailey,Nena Galanidou,Hans Peeters,Hauke Jöns,Moritz Mennenga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030373672

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The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes by Geoff Bailey,Nena Galanidou,Hans Peeters,Hauke Jöns,Moritz Mennenga Pdf

This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with unique conditions of preservation. The material reviewed here ranges in date from the Lower Palaeolithic period to the Bronze Age and covers 20 countries bordering all the major marine basins from the Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Norway to the Black Sea, and from the western Baltic to the eastern Mediterranean. The finds from each country are presented in their archaeological context, with information on the history of discovery, conditions of preservation and visibility, their relationship to regional changes in sea-level and coastal geomorphology, and the institutional arrangements for their investigation and protection. Editorial introductions summarise the findings from each of the major marine basins. There is also a final section with extensive discussion of the historical background and the legal and regulatory frameworks that inform the management of the underwater cultural heritage and collaboration between offshore industries, archaeologists and government agencies. The volume is based on the work of COST Action TD0902 SPLASHCOS, a multi-disciplinary and multi-national research network supported by the EU-funded COST organisation (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). The primary readership is research and professional archaeologists, marine and Quaternary scientists, cultural-heritage managers, commercial and governmental organisations, policy makers, and all those with an interest in the sea floor of the continental shelf and the human impact of changes in climate, sea-level and coastal geomorphology.

Author : José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo,Emmet Marron,Maria Crîngaci Țiplic
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789695414

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Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe: an Archaeological Perspective by José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo,Emmet Marron,Maria Crîngaci Țiplic Pdf

By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.

Author : John T. Baker,Stuart Brookes,Andrew J. Reynolds
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : 2503529569

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Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe by John T. Baker,Stuart Brookes,Andrew J. Reynolds Pdf

This volume is the result of a conference at University College London in 2007 which addressed the scale and form of civil defences in early medieval Europe, c. 800-1000. Previous work has largely focussed on individual sites or specific categories of evidence. These papers offer new interdisciplinary perspectives driven by a landscape approach. Several contributions focus on civil defence in England around the time of King Alfred the Great, and together provide a new agenda for the study of Anglo-Saxon military landscapes. European case-studies facilitate a comparative approach to local and regional defensive structures and interpretive paradigms. Topics and themes covered include civil defence landscapes, the organization and form of defensive structures, and the relationships and dynamics between social complexity, militarization, and external threats. With papers ranging from England to Spain and Germany to Scandinavia the volume is of relevance to a range of disciplines including archaeology, history, onomastics, geography, and anthropology.

Author : George Jaramillo,Juliane Tomann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800732223

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Transcending the Nostalgic by George Jaramillo,Juliane Tomann Pdf

Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that, increasingly, produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

Author : Chris Scarre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134482191

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Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe by Chris Scarre Pdf

Atlantic Europe is the zone par excellence of megalithic monuments, which encompass a wide range of earthen and stone constructions from inpressive stone circles to modest chambered tombs. A single basic concept lies behind this volume - that the intrinsic qualities encountered within the diverse landscapes pf Atlantic Europe both informed the settings chosen for the monuments and played a role in determining their form and visual appearance. Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe goes significantly beyond the limits of existing debate by inviting archaeologists from different countries with the Atlantic zone (including Britain, France, Ireland, Spain and Sweden) to examine the relationship between landscape features and prehistoric monuments in their specialist regions. By placing the issue within a broader regional and intellectual context, the authors illustrate the diversity of current archaeological ideas and approaches converging around this central theme.

Author : Bas Pedroli,Anne van Doorn,Geert de Blust
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004278073

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Europe's Living Landscapes by Bas Pedroli,Anne van Doorn,Geert de Blust Pdf

Landscape is one of the most fascinating assets of Europe. The great diversity in landscapes reflects a multitude of historical layers. This book presents the story of some of the most expressive European landscapes. It explores how engagement may safeguard and improve landscape identity for the future.

Author : Henrique M. Pereira,Laetitia M. Navarro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319120393

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Rewilding European Landscapes by Henrique M. Pereira,Laetitia M. Navarro Pdf

Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly traditional agriculture in remote areas. This book proposes that this land abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to restore natural ecosystems via rewilding. We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long-term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes. The book aims at introducing the concept of rewilding to scientists, students and practitioners. The first part presents the theory of rewilding in the European context. The second part of the book directly addresses the link between rewilding, biodiversity, and habitats. The third and last part is dedicated to practical aspects of the implementation of rewilding as a land management option. We believe that this book will both set the basis for future research on rewilding and help practitioners think about how rewilding can take place in areas under their management.