Defiant Gardens
Making Gardens in Wartime
Published on 13. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-59534-045-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Defiant Gardens" examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps in the US, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea and the Second World Wars.
Reviews / Votes
"An incredible and deply moving history of the ways in which soldiers and civilians, often in the most grievous and immiserated circumstances, have created little pockets of horticultural hope throughout the twentieth century... The photographs alone are extraordinary, but the chronicles of imaginative resistance are almost beyond belief. (New Statesman)More details
Edition
First Trade Paper Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Antonio
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
785 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59534-045-0 (9781595340450)
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Person
Kenneth I Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon. He is the author of several previous books, and the former editor of Landscape Journal. A fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, he is also an honorary member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects.