Imagined Country
Environment, Culture, and Society
Published on 30. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8156-2954-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.
Reviews / Votes
Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well." -National Geographic Research and Exploration"Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement." - The Higher
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
75 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-2954-2 (9780815629542)
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