Reading Rural Landscapes

Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780884483700

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Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past by Robert Stanford Pdf

William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.

Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781684751563

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Reading Rural Landscapes by Robert Stanford Pdf

Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.

Author : Jane Grenville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317798118

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Managing the Historic Rural Landscape by Jane Grenville Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781861089939

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Reading the Landscape by Peter Watson Pdf

It is not only what we see but how we see that makes a difference... In his sequel to Capturing the Light, Peter Watson revisits the often delicate process of interpreting and capturing landscapes in photography. His, almost scientific, approach challenges us to see like an artist and seize creative opportunities, whilst comprehensive tools and techniques coverage allow us to put his theories into practice, with impressive results.

Author : May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550236

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Reading the Landscape of America by May Theilgaard Watts Pdf

In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows how to read the stories written in the land, interpreting the clues laid down by history, culture, and natural forces. A renowned teacher, writer and conservationist in her native Midwest, Watts studied with Henry Cowles, the pioneering American ecologist. She was the first to explain his theories of plant succesion to the general public. Her graceful, witty essays, with charming illustrations by the author, are still relevant and engaging today, as she invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes.

Author : Joan Thirsk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015048597937

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The English Rural Landscape by Joan Thirsk Pdf

From pre-history to the present day our landscape has been transformed by dramatic human disturbance, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built-up layers of evidence which today present historians with exciting new insights about land use and rural communities of the past. In this groundbreaking new study Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the very landscape they so intimately describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Each chapter synthesizes the very latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its specific subject. The first ten chapters in turn describe the characteristic features of the main regional landscape types, including fenlands, downlands, woodlands, marshlands, and moorlands, showing that, however physically scattered they may be, they have been moulded by successive generations to produce many uniting similarities.

Author : Jane Grenville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317798101

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Managing the Historic Rural Landscape by Jane Grenville Pdf

First published in 1999. The Issues in Heritage Management series is a joint venture between Routledge and English Heritage. It provides accessible, thought-provoking books on issues central to heritage management. Each book within the series is designed to provide a topical introduction to a key issue in heritage management for students in higher education and for heritage professionals. Rapid changes are taking place in countryside management today, making their impact on the historic landscape. In an accessible format, this volume examines the questions and conflicts that arise in Managing the Historic Rural Landscape. It is essential reading for students and professionals concerned with countryside management, in particular those involved with cultural landscapes and students of planning.

Author : F. H. A. Aalen,Kevin Whelan,Matthew Stout
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780802042941

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Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape by F. H. A. Aalen,Kevin Whelan,Matthew Stout Pdf

Lush and green, the beauty of Ireland's landscape is legendary. "The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape" has harnessed the expertise of dozens of specialists to produce an exciting and pioneering study which aims to increase understanding and appreciation for the landscape as an important element of Irish national heritage, and to provide a much needed basis for an understanding of landscape conservation and planning. Essentially cartographic in approach, the Atlas is supplemented by diagrams, photographs, paintings, and explanatory text. Regional case studies, covering the whole of Ireland from north to south, are included, along with historical background. The impact of human civilization upon Ireland's geography and environment is well documented, and the contributors to the Atlas deal with contemporary changes in the landscape resulting from developments in Irish agriculture, forestry, bog exploitation, tourism, housing, urban expansion, and other forces. "The Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape" is a book which aims to educate and inform the general reader and student about the relationship between human activity and the landscape. It is a richly illustrated, beautifully written, and immensely authoritative work that will be the guide to Ireland's geography for many years to come.

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0881504203

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Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Pdf

Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges

Author : Simon Pugh
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Landscape
ISBN : 0719029791

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Reading Landscape by Simon Pugh Pdf

Author : John Fraser Hart
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801857171

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The Rural Landscape by John Fraser Hart Pdf

Carrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the bow wavewhere city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land.

Author : Gino De Vecchis
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788868126964

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J-Reading 1-2016 by Gino De Vecchis Pdf

Silvia Aru, Fabio Parascandolo, Marcello Tanca, Luca Vargiu ForewordFabio Parascandolo Crisis of landscapes, landscapes of the crisis: notes for a socio-ecological approachAnna Maria Colavitti The crisis of the landscape, the crisis of the norms for the landscape, the planning of the landscape between uncertainty and second thoughts. A few basic issuesBenedetta Castiglioni “Institutional” vs “everyday” landscape as conflicting concepts in opinions and practices. Reflections and perspectives from a case study in Northeastern ItalyPaolo D’Angelo Agriculture and landscape. From cultivated fields to the wilderness, and backSilvia Aru The smart city: urban landscapes in the current crisisFederica Pau Sardinian rebirth landscapes. An aesthetician’s outlookMarcello Tanca Cagliari’s urban landscape: a commons?Serge Latouche Degrowth as a territorial-landscape project

Author : Laura R. Barraclough
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820335629

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Making the San Fernando Valley by Laura R. Barraclough Pdf

In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley—home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urbanplanning decisions that have shaped the Valley over the course of more than a hundred years. The Valley's entwined history of urban development and rural preservation has real ramifications today for patterns of racial and class inequality and especially for the evolving meaning of whiteness. Immersing herself in meetings of homeowners' associations, equestrian organizations, and redistricting committees, Barraclough uncovers the racial biases embedded in rhetoric about “open space” and “western heritage.” The Valley's urban cowboys enjoy exclusive, semirural landscapes alongside the opportunities afforded by one of the world's largest cities. Despite this enviable position, they have at their disposal powerful articulations of both white victimization and, with little contradiction, color-blind politics.

Author : Willem Pieter Blockmans,Wim Blockmans,Juan Eloy Gelabert González
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0717273318

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Rural Landscapes by Willem Pieter Blockmans,Wim Blockmans,Juan Eloy Gelabert González Pdf

Describes the effects of long and regionally varying experiences of social, economic, political, and cultural changes on the evolving rural landscapes.

Author : Daniel R. Stewart
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1407311204

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Reading the Landscapes of the Rural Peloponnese by Daniel R. Stewart Pdf

The extent, nature and causes of settlement change in the rural Peloponnese (Greece) in the last centuries of the Hellenistic period and the early centuries of Roman rule (c.200 BC to c.AD 200) are the focus of this study. Understanding the rural landscape has implications for our readings of certain aspects of cultural change and land use, and can help bridge the gap between necessarily elite-driven historiographical studies and related stratified deposits. This study is not meant to be either an historical narrative on the 'decline and depopulation' of Greece or a treatise on survey archaeology. Rather, it is meant to elucidate the complex nature of the rural landscape of the Peloponnese in these periods, and to identify some of the behaviours of the inhabitants of that landscape.