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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009199858
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 506 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Modern British histories
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2094109/04
    Keywords: Landscapes / Great Britain / History ; Landscapes / Social aspects / Great Britain ; Country life / Great Britain ; British / Diaries ; English diaries ; Great Britain / Rural conditions ; Great Britain / Historical geography
    Abstract: Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by personal circumstances, especially those experienced in childhood and youth. Four major patterns are identified: 'Adherers' valued landscape for its continuity, 'Withdrawers' for the refuge it provides from perceived threats, 'Restorers' for its sustaining of core value systems, and 'Explorers' for its opportunities for self-discovery and development. Lifescapes sets out a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography and deep contextualization, which has far-reaching implications. It foregrounds family structures and relationships and the psychological dynamics they generate. These, it is argued, were usually a more decisive presence in landscape encounters than wider cultural patterns and forces. Seen in this way, landscape can be understood as a mirror reflecting our innermost selves and the psychosocial influences shaping our development. This is a compelling and original study of the relationship between indi
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2023) , Diaries, life writing and popular ruralism -- Beatrix Cresswell: Exeter antiquarian -- William Henry Hallam: Swindon turner -- Katherine Spear Smith: Hampshire artist -- Violet Dickinson: Itinerant craftswoman -- Dr John Johnston: Bolton doctor -- Sadie Barmes: London clerk -- Fred Catley: Bristol bookseller -- Conclusion: Towards a deep history of landscape
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    Online Resource
    London : I.B. Tauris
    ISBN: 1417520558 , 9781417520558
    Language: English
    Pages: 238 p., [8] p. of plates , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Paradise lost
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    Keywords: City and town life History. ; Country life History. ; Geographical perception ; Landscape changes ; Human geography ; City and town life History ; Great Britain ; Country life History ; Great Britain ; Geographical perception Great Britain ; Landscape changes Great Britain ; Human geography Great Britain ; Geographical perception ; Landscape changes ; Human geography ; City and town life History ; Country life History ; City and town life History. ; Country life History. ; Geographical perception ; Landscape changes ; Human geography ; Agrargesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Great Britain Rural conditions. ; Great Britain Social conditions 19th century. ; Great Britain Social conditions 20th century. ; Great Britain Rural conditions ; Great Britain Social conditions ; 19th century ; Great Britain Social conditions ; 20th century ; Grossbritannien ; Ländlicher Raum ; Idylle ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte ; 1800-2000 ; Grossbritannien ; Ländlicher Raum ; Stadt ; Geschichte ; 1800-2000 ; Great Britain ; Great Britain Rural conditions ; Great Britain Social conditions 19th century ; Great Britain Social conditions 20th century ; Great Britain Rural conditions. ; Great Britain Social conditions 19th century. ; Great Britain Social conditions 20th century. ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; Großbritannien ; Agrargesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1800-2001 ; Großbritannien ; Agrargesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1800-2001
    Abstract: Industrialization and Urbanization -- Literature and the Countryside, c.1800 to c.1870 -- Radicalism and the Land, c.1790 to c.1850 -- Gardens, Allotments and Parks -- Model Villages and Garden Cities -- Literary Attitudes to the Countryside in the Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Land Reform After 1850 -- Preservationism, 'Englishness' and the Rise of Planning, c.1880-1939 -- The Economic Consequences of Rural Nostalgia -- Rambling -- The Organic Movemenet Before and During the Second World War -- Rural Reconstruction Between the Wars -- Rural Change and the Legislative Framework, 1939 to 2000 -- Agriculture and the Environment -- Recreation in the Countryside Since the Second World War -- Intra-village Social Change and Attitudinal Conflict in the Twentieth Century -- Town, Country and Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century; 1800 - 1999
    Description / Table of Contents: Industrialization and UrbanizationLiterature and the Countryside, c.1800 to c.1870Radicalism and the Land, c.1790 to c.1850Gardens, Allotments and ParksModel Villages and Garden CitiesLiterary Attitudes to the Countryside in the Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLand Reform After 1850Preservationism, 'Englishness' and the Rise of Planning, c.1880-1939The Economic Consequences of Rural NostalgiaRamblingThe Organic Movemenet Before and During the Second World WarRural Reconstruction Between the WarsRural Change and the Legislative Framework, 1939 to 2000Agriculture and the EnvironmentRecreation in the Countryside Since the Second World WarIntra-village Social Change and Attitudinal Conflict in the Twentieth CenturyTown, Country and Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-228) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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