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1 online resource |
Summary |
'Disciples of Flora' explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity; gardens being an eminent locus where culture and nature meet. This collection of essays contributes to a revision of histories of gardens by broadening the scope of scholarly inquiry to include a long history from ancient Rome to the present, in which contesting memories delineate new apprehensions of topography and space. The contributors draw attention t |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
Subject |
Gardens -- History.
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Gardens in art.
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Gardens -- Social aspects
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ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
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GARDENING -- Garden Design.
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GARDENING -- Landscape.
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Gardens
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Gardens in art
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Gardens -- Social aspects
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Pagán, Victoria Emma, 1965- editor
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Page, Judith W., 1951- editor.
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Weltman-Aron, Brigitte, 1961- editor.
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ISBN |
9781443881319 |
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1443881317 |
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