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Landscape, nature, and the body politic : from Britain's renaissance to America's new world

This text is an exploration of the origins and lasting influence of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, and, nature
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, ©2002
History
xxxii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780299174200, 9780299174248, 0299174204, 0299174247
48451186
Introduction: nature, country, and landscape
The political landscape as polity and place
Country and landscape
"Masquing" the body politic of Britain
Landscaping the body politic of the British state
Landscaping Britain's country and nature
Gendering the nation's natural landscape
Landscaping racial and national progress
The "country" of the United States contra the "landscape" of America's new world
Conclusion: landscape, place, and the body politic