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Technologies of landscape : from reaping to recycling / edited by David E. Nye

Nye, David E., 1946-

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)1999

Online Ressource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Technologies of Landscape / David E. Nye

Ephemeral LandscapesAgricultural Technology and the Ephemeral Landscape / Paul Brassley

Journey into Space: Interpretations of Landscape in Contemporary Art / James Dickinson

Inventing LandscapesAbandoning Paradise: The Western Pictorial Paradigm Shift around 1420 / Jacob Wamberg

The Employment of the Word: Writing, Topography, and Colonial Landscapes / Tadeusz Rachwal

Remaking a "Natural Menace": Engineering the Colorado River / David E. Nye

Resisting Rural ModernityBegrudging Aesthetics for a New South: The Farm Security Administration Photographic Project and Southern Modernization, 1935 to 1943 / Stuart Kidd

Making and Meaning in the English Countryside / Christopher Bailey

Narrating PollutionPublic Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester / Stephen Mosley

Narrating the Toxic Landscape in "Cancer Alley," Louisiana / Barbara Allen

Landscape as PathwayBenton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail: Imagining and Engineering a Landscape / Mark Luccarelli

"The Landscape's Crown": Landscape, Perceptions, and Modernizing Effects of the German Autobahn System, 1934 to 1941 / Thomas Zeller

Touring LandscapesThe Improvement of Arthur Young: Agricultural Technology and the Production of Landscape in Eighteenth-Century England / Stephen Bending

The Road to Industrial Heterotopia: Landscape, Technology, and George Orwell's Travelogue The Road to Wigan Pier / Pia Maria Ahlback.

"Emerged from a conference 'Landscape and technology, ' held at Odense University in Denmark in January 1997"--Page ix. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references

Print version: Technologies of landscape

0-585-34246-6 (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-34246-7 ( : electronic bk.)

1-55849-228-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 47009761     

OCoLC: 47009761 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

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Technologies of Landscape /David E. Nye --Ephemeral Landscapes --Agricultural Technology and the Ephemeral Landscape /Paul Brassley --Journey into Space: Interpretations of Landscape in Contemporary Art /James Dickinson --Inventing Landscapes --Abandoning Paradise: The Western Pictorial Paradigm Shift around 1420 /Jacob Wamberg --The Employment of the Word: Writing, Topography, and Colonial Landscapes /Tadeusz Rachwal --Remaking a "Natural Menace": Engineering the Colorado River /David E. Nye --Resisting Rural Modernity --Begrudging Aesthetics for a New South: The Farm Security Administration Photographic Project and Southern Modernization, 1935 to 1943 /Stuart Kidd --Making and Meaning in the English Countryside /Christopher Bailey --Narrating Pollution --Public Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester /Stephen Mosley --Narrating the Toxic Landscape in "Cancer Alley," Louisiana /Barbara Allen --Landscape as Pathway --Benton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail: Imagining and Engineering a Landscape /Mark Luccarelli --"The Landscape's Crown": Landscape, Perceptions, and Modernizing Effects of the German Autobahn System, 1934 to 1941 /Thomas Zeller --Touring Landscapes --The Improvement of Arthur Young: Agricultural Technology and the Production of Landscape in Eighteenth-Century England /Stephen Bending --The Road to Industrial Heterotopia: Landscape, Technology, and George Orwell's Travelogue The Road to Wigan Pier /Pia Maria Ahlback.